First and most important, if you find a baby fawn do NOT take it across state lines. This will seal this animal's fate because the Department of Natural Resources will want to euthanize the animal for testing of transmittable disease! Please visit the National Wildlife Rehabilitators Association to locate rehabilitators in your state.
A baby fawn was found in UNION TOWNSHIP, Ohio and was transferred to a farm somewhere in the rural area of Nicholas County, Kentucky. This is illegal and now they are seeking to find the deer in order to euthanize it and to test it for disease. The Ohio woman that located the fawn, named Sunny, and transferred it to Kentucky is facing criminal charges if the deer is not found and brought into the Ohio Department of Natural Resources.
I have done my fair share of research on this wondering why the animal has to be euthanized in order to test it for disease. I'm no expert on the subject, but the only thing I can think of that requires the deer to be killed would be testing it's brain for rabies. This, however, could also be done by quaranteening the animal for a month. This is a cry out for your help! Please comment on this post if you know of any reason that this deer must perish in order to be tested for disease. Also, if anyone has any suggestions that may help this animal have the right to be raised in an Ohio based sanctuary and then be released in the wild, please speak up.
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Please, if anyone that has any input at all to help with this matter, leave your comments so maybe we can do something to help this deer. Thank you in advance for any information you can provide.
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I think the odnr can kill it and have it mounted and take all over the state and put on the deer that they confiscated this deer from some little girl that took care of it for to months and had to be killed because it could have a rabies i do not think there are a lot off rabied deer in ohio but im just guessing they will be at the state shoot in columbus with there tent with all the deer they confiscated probley many that were diseased what a joke I feel so sorry for the little girl and the fawn this is so wrong mark
Call the Ohio Governor Ted Strickland's office:
(614) 466-3555 between 8:00 AM and 5:00 PM Monday thru Friday.
Tell the Governor DNR does not have to kill a baby deer to perform tests and to use his influence to get DNR to drop the case.
Tami
ODNR: PLEASE QUARANTINE THE DEER IF THIS WILL PRESERVE ITS LIFE!!!
I have no information for how to help the deer, but I think this is a terrible story and I can't understand why testing for rabies would require an act as final as euthanasia. I just saw this story on 10TV and it really depressed me. I KNOW people are supposed to leave wildlife alone, but this is ridiculous. Would ODNR be in a hurry to euthanize the animal if it was a baby bear instead of a baby deer? I doubt it. I'm upset about this particular story and I wanted to say something, somewhere. The fawn was so small and fragile-looking, I hate to imagine it being given a lethal injection of some sort, like all the poor, unwanted cats at humane societies that are euthanized, thrown in trash bags and tossed in a pile. It's so disturbing.
I understand the desire to curb the spread of rabies, but I just can't believe euthanasia is the only way. Seeing the bond between the fawn and its elderly caretaker in the news story makes the idea of euthanizing this rescued animal seem more like a crime than the actual "crime" of transporting an animal (born in America) across state lines.
QUARANTINE THE FAWN!! QUARANTINE THE FAWN!! QUARANTINE THE FAWN!! DO NOT EUTHANIZE THE FAWN!!
I am outraged that the ODNR would kill this innocent little fawn. It deserves to live!! Keep it quarantined for a month and then set it free. This little baby does not have to die. What in the world is ODNR thinking. And the woman who rescured the fawn should be givin praise not a jail sentence.
I would do the same thing she did and will if I find any animal in need.
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Why would they need to kill it? Most diseases can easily be tested for with a simple blood test. As for rabies, like you said you can just quarantine it. They wouldn't kill a human being to test for rabies thats immoral...what makes it ok to kill an animal when its completely unnecessary...