Massachusetts: Vermont, take note. This is how you rescue orphaned fawns!

You may remember a story from just about a week ago how two Milton Police Department officers went to extraordinary lengths to save a newborn fawn - giving it the animal version of CPR to bring it back to life. 

They took it  to a veterinarian and just a couple days later Vermont Fish & Wildlife KILLED the baby fawn -- not because it was so sick it couldn't' survive, but simply because it's not their policy to send any deer or fawns to wildlife rehabilitators, sanctuaries or rescues!

Why would an agency do this? To protect hunters and the millions of dollars they generate from hunting licenses, tags, etc. They don't care about animals at all. In their minds, they exist to be trapped, shot and killed for money.

 

Vermont Fish & Wildlife killed this baby fawn.

But clearly Massachusetts DOES care about animals. They rescued the little fawn below and he is now recovering at a wildlife rehabilitation clinic. Vermont, take note!

MASSACHUSETTS -- A fawn was rescued after a Massachusetts Environmental Police officer saw it trying to nurse from its dead mother, authorities said.

The officer was driving to a training seminar in New Bedford Friday morning when he spotted the fawn, which is only a few weeks old.

Personnel from Massachusetts Division of Fisheries & Wildlife assisted environmental police officers in capturing the animal and later successfully recovered a second fawn.

The fawns were transported to a wildlife rehabilitation clinic.

Police said the doe had sustained fatal injuries from a car accident.

(Turn to 10 - June 16, 2016)

This morning, June 16, 2016, a Massachusetts Environmental Police officer was traveling to a training seminar in New Bedford when he noticed a young fawn attempting to nurse from its deceased mother; the doe had sustained fatal injuries resulting from a car accident.

Personnel from Massachusetts Division of Fisheries & Wildlife assisted Environmental Police Officers in capturing the few week old fawn. The fawn has been transported to a wildlife rehabilitation clinic.

For more information on finding young wildlife in Massachusetts, please visit: http://1.usa.gov/1Kcyd6R.

UPDATE: MassWildlife personnel stayed on scene and successfully recovered a second fawn.

(Massachusetts Environmental Police Facebook - June 16, 2016)