What To Do If You Find A Baby Deer

This is such an important message. So many people think they're doing good when they take animals in, but they don't really see the big picture.

I can not tell you how many fawns and deer your video just saved this season! Thank you! Thank you! THANK YOU! I worked at a vet office in high school and we had 2 certified wildlife rehabilitators, one was a vet tech, the other a vet. Every year people would bring in "orphaned fawns" to them. One year between the 2 of them they rehabbed 7 fawns, and only 2 actually needed help. Fawns that are left alone are often only a few days old and survival rates decrease the younger the fawn is because they may still be getting antibodies from their mothers milk and without that they have no immune system to keep them healthy. The best place for young wildlife is with their mothers in the wild, the only time we should step in is when that truly is not possible because the mother is dead or the young animal is clearly injured or sick. Please always call your local wildlife office and rehabilitation center FIRST, for any concern with wildlife. They can help and will know exactly what is best for that animal and the environment.

I hope everyone going to a place with deer that is coming from a place without deer sees this. Thank you for putting it out there. Especially if they are coming to my area of Texas. Over a decade ago I was driving home from work and saw this lady chasing a fawn around on the side of the road near some undeveloped land which was a mix of trees and tall grass. I pulled over to ask her what she was doing and she said she had pulled over because she had seen the fawn lift its head and didn't see the mom so she was sure it was abandoned. I took that moment to educate her to just leave the fawn alone and the mom would return for it. I live in a college town with a lot of wild spaces and a lot of deer. She was here to visit her child who was going to college here. It took a lot of talking to convince her it was okay but she eventually got in her car and left. I hope she didn't return later... I am sure the fawn was fine. It looked perfectly healthy. - Heidi

Very good advice and much more thorough than the sort of thing that wafts around social media! Nicely done!

Very good and I liked the fact you emphasized nature taking its course. I know the channel is about rescues but I'd like to see Taylor do videos educating us about native Montana wildlife, that exist close to your centre, but aren't in the center.

I had one in my yard ( northern Wisconsin ) I thought she was abandoned..... She was so cute !!!! You're right eventually she was gone...... Took many hours.... I felt so sorry 4 her,,, looked lonely....... Today, in the Hwy,,,, had to stop,,,, in my lane,,,, a mother was nursing her baby,,, eventually.... I beeped,,, or they would of been killed... 😢 They're so adorable !!!

The best people in the world tend to be those who are kind toward animals

The hardest thing to do as a human, is just to let nature naturally take its course. We're so full of empathy for other things, even inanimate objects. Hard to see something "in trouble" and do nothing. Thanks for educating us!

Taylor, you are a treasure. This is fantastic advice. Deer constantly overpopulate my area to the point that even hunters can't do enough, and the forest service regularly must cull the population.

I was just reflecting on this yesterday! I startled him at my back door and he took off before I knew he was there.... I had to leave him alone just hoping his mom could find him when she got back

THANK YOU for explaining the bigger picture and the ecological impact of the death of an animal. Really, it was beautiful. It really helps.

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I came here because there is a baby in my yard. So cute! He is safe. Glad to know mom is coming back. Thanks for this video 🥰

Everyone on a highway was slowing down for some odd looking garbage on the road last summer. Then it stood up! I was an adorable baby deer "hiding" in the middle of the pavement. A nervous mom was near the road. Luckily the fawn got up and left the road... I'm hoping they went far away! This was the smallest fawn I've ever seen. Like as if mom gave birth on the highway. So adorable! And scary.

Well my thing is that we rescued a baby deer after her mother was run over . But we still Kept the deer and it’s perfectly fine

This is more than just what the title suggests. Thank you.

This was so informative and straightforward! I appreciate so much that you always make it clear that wild animals are not pets or toys, and have to be treated with distance and respect. And even when you do take in wild animals you specify that those are special cases, and they each have specific needs and boundaries. Thank you so much for teaching humans how to interact safely and responsibly with other animals. <3

I was walking through the woods once and when I approached a patch of tall grass, a doe bolted out, leaving a baby behind. The little dum-dum immediately tried to follow its mom, crying all the while. I remember thinking "yep, if I was a predator, you'd be dead right now."

A very important message very well delivered. Thank you, Taylor.

(husband commenting) a few weeks ago my wife and i came across a fawn wandering near a busy road, and me as a firefighter had to take action, and move the fawn out of the road by picking it up and putting it back into the woods