On Tuesday, June 25, Norwood Police and Animal Control Officer Henry Cerqueira received a call about a fawn that had become trapped at the business.
“It jumped into the oil change pits at Valvoline. When I got there, it was stuck in the safety net,” Cerqueira said. “When (the pits) are not in use, they put a safety net over to catch anyone who falls in. Her head was stuck and her legs were tangled.”
The oil change pits are areas where employees can perform maintenance on a car, such as an oil change. The fawn did not fall into a pit of oil, Cerqueira said.
“The deer was struggling to get out,” Officer Kevin Grasso said. “(Cerqueira) was able to free the deer and point it into the proper direction of its home.”
In this case, the home was the wooden area behind Rojo’s, as that is a relatively secluded area near the Valvoline station. Cerqueira said that at the fawn’s age, the doe typically leaves the fawn alone in such an area for an extended period of time, returning to nurse it and relocate it.
“Something must have spooked her and she ran, or the heat caused her to go into the garage looking for shade,” Cerqueira said.
Cerqueira freed the fawn shortly after 8 a.m. on June 25. There was a scare at 8:30 a.m., when Norwood Police received a call regarding a deer that was hit near the intersection of Westview Drive and Neponset Street in Norwood. Cerqueira confirmed that the deer in this accident was not the same deer as the fawn freed from Valvoline Instant Oil Change. The intersection where the deer was hit is about 2.4 miles away from the business.
(Wicked Local - June 27, 2013)
