Injured Deer

This poor deer was most likely hit by a car.The Colorado Division of Wildlife made everyone wait over 24 hours before we were "authorized" to rescue him.He ended up with a massive head injury and had to be put down. :(
I can't think of anything more cruel than leaving a baby to die while the mother watches.

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Pets & Animals

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• colorado
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[poppadompeach]

Absolutely no right to interfere they should have left the deer with the mother. The baby would have had more comfort dying with it's mother.

[Wildrsq]

@poppadompeach And I ABSOLUTELY have the right to provided immediate transport for sick,injured and orphaned wildlife! Who do you think you are?

[poppadompeach]

Yes I agree SAVE the animals if they can be saved but the last place to take an animal who seems to have all limbs working and is crying out for mom is to be put down. So we'll just but all living things down including humans against their will, what a caring world. And the description says MAY have been hit by a car so did anyone really know what was wrong with it? And where's the road or traffic noise? if the baby got to that spot on its own accord? Just a sorry situation,

[Wildrsq]

@poppadompeach This deer was in this position for 24+ hours before we were allowed to attempt a rescue. The people that called us watched this deer for 2 days scoot across their front yard on its side(same position as the video shows). At the end of the video , I spin the camera around and you can clearly see my truck sitting on the side of the road. Dr.G sedated this deer,took xrays, performed an exam and determined this deer would never survive the head trauma, blood in the eyeballs,ears,.,

[Wildrsq]

@poppadompeach It was a sad situation. This video was filmed 3 years ago and since then we have successfully rescued,rehabbed and released 1000's of other wildlife ,including countless other deer(yes, some of them do die, we CAN'T save all of them,but we try). We hate it when a animal dies, we also hate seeing a animal suffer because of man. Getting hit by a car isn't nature IMO.

[marywinters123]

@poppadompeach No right to interfere! You have no right to drive a car and interfere with the wild life habitat. Grow up we human's interfere all the time it's all we do. So why can we go hunt but not help them live?

[poppadompeach]

@Wildrsq If you had been just hit by a car and had a head trauma would you be up and about walking? You'd need time to recover but the truth is modern science doesn't give a shit about animals. Proof is that we don't put children down who get hit by cars. And in that case let baby stay with mom if you are going to kill it anyway because at least it may have had a chance with her because it had no chance with a vet did it?

[poppadompeach]

@Wildrsq This deer it was put down not saved. Big difference, why not at least hang about and see how the mom responds to the baby leave them a lone for a few hours and then act? She obviously wanted to be with her baby. Animals have their own ritualistic behavior look at hippos and elephants, meercats. They mourn the dead like we do and try to help where they can they are not stupid. Now no one will know if the baby would ever recover because nature didn't take it's life a person did!

[poppadompeach]

I have no problem rescuing wildlife at all. I have a problem when animals are put down and not given a chance. Writing off a life. We wouldn't do that to a human. I have rescued my own fair share of wild animals that would have been written off as a lost cause by vets including a magpie that was attacked by a bird and left for dead, leg missing feathers ripped out the lot. He didnt eat for 5 days, just lay there taking water by a drip feeder. I released him back into the wild 9 months later.

[Wildrsq]

@poppadompeach You should check out some of my other videos on youtube(80+). I volunteer to rescue sick,injured and orphaned wildlife and i'm part of a large network of people across this state that do the same. We are all volunteers, do NOT get paid/no tax money and do this almost every day, sometimes 3-4 times a day. Why do you have a problem with rescuing wildlife?

[Wildrsq]

@poppadompeach I took this deer to a State Licensed Wildlife Veterinarian that works with State and Federally licensed Wildlife Rehabbers. She did everything possible to save this deer. I had this deer to the vets office within 20 minutes.