Tag: deer

By Caleb Hutton

This is an update to another post from today.

Happy to report the baby deer rescued by a state trooper from Bellingham is doing well at a wildlife rescue center in Arlington.

“So far, so good,” said Suzanne West, executive director of the Sarvey Wildlife Center.

The 2-month-old fawn came in to the wildlife center “severely dehydrated” on Tuesday, July 10, West said. Earlier that evening, Washington State Patrol Trooper Scott Brown had responded to a deer fatality near the Northwest Avenue exit on Interstate 5. See the post from this morning for more details.

West wasn’t totally sure if the doe, killed by a truck, was the fawn’s mother. But it’s possible, she said. The fawn also had some minor injuries — no broken bones, but it may have been clipped by the truck.

Workers at the wildlife center don’t name the animals, because they don’t want to get too attached. And they wear hoods during feeding, so fawns don’t get the idea humans will care for them.

“We want them to stay wild,” West said.

If the rehabilitation is successful, it will probably take until May 2013 before the deer can be released back into the wild.

The fawn has a deer buddy to help in recovery, because “fawns don’t do well in isolation,” West said.

(Sarvey Wildlife will accept donations to help care for the fawn, West added. Further updates on the deer can be found on the center’s Facebook page.)

Here are the photos, courtesy of the wildlife center: