Hey this might be cute and I know OP isn’t actually the person that did this, but please don’t reblog this uncritically and encourage this kind of behavior. Mother deer frequently leave their fawns for hours on end to feed, and because of this people often try to ‘save’ them thinking that they’ve been abandoned. If the parking lot was really that busy this person should have maybe attempted to contact the owners and set up a blockade around the fawn, or moved it off the pavement into the trees seen in the picture. Picking up a fawn, let alone putting it in your car, is extremely stressful for the animal and could have possibly prompted the mother to attack if she was nearby.
Deer might be cute, but they’re wild animals and carry diseases. If you suspect that a fawn has been abandoned (as in you haven’t seen the mother for a couple days), call a local professional to deal with the animal in a proper, safe method.
^ as above. Don’t go just picking up wildlife you think might be abandoned.
Wildlife rehabber here.
There are only three reasons you should ever remove a fawn from where you found it:
if it is visibly wounded
if it is covered in flies or fly eggs
if it is crying out
If any of those three things are true, then you should contact a licensed wildlife rehabilitator and ask to bring the fawn in to them. Do not attempt to raise it on your own. Fawns have very specific nutritional requirements and need special formula–you can’t just feed it the cow’s milk in your fridge–and require round-the-clock care. If you’re hand-raising a fawn, or any other baby mammal, you’re not gonna get a full night’s sleep until it’s weaned. Not unless you want a stunted, emaciated baby.
We’ve already had a couple kidnapped fawns this season, and it is not pretty. The animals were stressed and miserable, and their mothers were certainly the same. When their fawns go missing, does spend 4-10 days searching the area and calling out for their babies–highly stressful and completely unnecessary.
Additionally, if you see a fawn, do not touch it unless you have been told by a licensed rehabber to bring it in. For the first few weeks of their lives, fawns’ legs are too weak to follow their mother, so the does will leave them in a safe place while they go out to eat. During this period of their lives, fawns have no scent. This is a defensive adaptation that protects the fawn from predators; when the fawn lays perfectly still and silent, predators will sometimes walk right past it without realizing it. If you touch a fawn, you will transfer some of your scent onto its fur. Not only does this make it more noticeable to predators, but there’s a chance that the doe will reject her baby because it’s basically become a coyote magnet.
So in short, leave fawns where you find them. If it’s in a busy area, try to keep people away from the fawn.
In extreme circumstances, a rehabber may ask you to move it, to a quieter area nearby, but you should only do so if you are instructed to. But you’re most likely to find it in a quiet spot away from people, in which case you should just leave it alone.
The doe will not return to nurse her fawn if she sees, hears, or smells you anywhere near it–you’re a dangerous predator and she doesn’t want you to know where her baby is–so the best thing you can do is just leave. Leave the area completely. If you want to check back in about twelve hours, you can, but the absolute best thing you can do for a quiet, clean, uninjured fawn is leave it alone.
It’s gonna be fawn season soon, and I have a lot more followers now than I did when I originally made this post.
No matter what nation you are from. The words “It’s a machine gun” has a strong effect on the mortal man.
Source is good old /k/
“Höhö, okay!”
My favorite part of this is the one US solider realizes the German isn’t firing the M2 right and just snaps his head up like that guy from trailer park boys. “Something’s fucky”
terrifying your own child into submission makes you an abuser.
watching your child cry and screaming at them to stop and invalidating their pain and reasons for crying makes you an abuser.
staring at your child in disgust and contempt after they displease you makes you an abuser.
threatening to your child to take away their basic resources if they don’t give you exactly what you want makes you an abuser.
forcing your child to feel ashamed for not living up to your ideals makes you an abuser.
using slurs, hateful names and insults on your own child without any regard to what it does to their mental health makes you an abuser.
forcing your child to chase impossible expectations and making them feel like they’re worthless for not achieving them makes you an abuser.
acting like your child is a burden and a waste of space and blaming their illness/disability/depression on it makes you an abuser.
behaving like your child will never amount to anything and isn’t worth any resources and nurturing makes you an abuser.
making your child feel like they’re never good enough makes you an abuser.
if your child’s heart is hurting because they know no matter what they do and how hard they try they will always be a failure in your eyes, you are an abuser.
if your child can’t look at themselves without self hatred because they had to look at themselves from your perspective and all they saw is disgust and hatred, you’re an abuser.
If your child is struggling to believe they have the right to live and to be cared and loved, if they can’t stop hearing your hateful voice putting them down and using their every action to prove they’re worthless, you’re an abuser.
If you watched your child in pain and ensured them they deserved it, you’re an abuser.
If your child can’t love themselves from how badly you hated them, you’re an abuser.
Guys, this NEEDS more reblogs.
People go through this all the time regularly, I can hardly name a family in my town whose children don’t tell me stories like the ones above.
Emotional abuse is a real problem these days and the children in those households don’t know that it’s not normal, or at least it shouldn’t be normal, until they are older. If they ever find out at all, that what they went through wasn’t right.
It is not a tool of effective parenting.
And to those children and teens who are going through this today, you are not alone. I know feels like it but you aren’t. You have to do what is best for you sometimes, if distancing yourself from your parents makes it better, do that. If talking to your best friend about it makes you feel better, please do that. This won’t last forever, you will grow up and move out and see that the world loves you.
You are beautiful and strong and I believe you can make it through this.
I am Silver Tongue, I am an artist. I have many characters and you can check out my art in the art tag. I occasionally practice witchcraft though I don't do anything too complicated. I am girl 2 and don't know what else to put here.
