He Nursed His Tiny Fawn Baby, Then Officials Came, Killed Her
Winnipeg Free Press › August 19, 2009
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"We got it on a baby's bottle and got it back to life," said [Stewart Stanbra], who also works as a clerk for the province. Stanbra said the deer, which he named Baby, had been in better health for the past few weeks.
"They didn't even try and find that deer a home," he said. "They just took it and killed it."[Sheila Smith] said mother deer aren't known to abandon babies, but may leave them for up to three-day stretches. A deer "imprinted" by too much human contact can become fearless as an adult and may attack humans with its hoofs or antlers, she siad.See the full content of this document
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He Nursed His Tiny Fawn Baby, Then Officials Came, Killed Her
By Lindsey Wiebe
A man who cared for a fawn he believed to be abandoned is upset that conservation officials euthanized the animal the same da...See the full content of this document
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