When I looked closely, I saw that it was still a small fawn. There was no sign of the mother deer nearby. The animals are a cartoon-like combination of a mother dog and a newborn fawn.
Then the deer did something surprising. She begged for milk, as if she thought of Sadie as her mother.
I was asked, “Was Sadie really nursing the fawn?” and I believe that she was. Sadie’s puppies were about to be weaned, but they were still producing milk at the time.
Sadie, who was still nursing her own children, was confused but allowed the fawn to suckle. Perhaps her motherly instincts kicked in, and she seemed to have completely accepted the fawn.
But Kayla can’t bring the fawn home with her. So, I discussed it with my husband and decided to contact a specialist.
The fawn returned safely to its mother.
The expert then advised Sadie to return the fawn to its original location and wait to see if the mother returned.
So I did just that, and what happened was exactly what the experts had predicted.
At one point, Kayla wondered what was going to happen, but she was relieved that she was able to return safely to her mother. Since then, he has been seeing what appears to be a mother and her calf deer almost every night near the farm.
There’s no way to confirm whether the deer are the fawn and mother deer that pampered Sadie that day, but Kayla says she feels warm every time she sees them.
The mother deer sometimes hides the fawn in bushes and leaves the area. If a human touches a fawn thinking it is a lost child, the mother deer may become wary of the fawn’s odor and abandon the baby.