Golden Retriever Makes Best Friends With Baby Fawn and It's Nothing Short of Precious
It’s often thought that though humans can find other animals fascinating or lovable, the same cannot be true for different animal species. We think kittens are cute, but a local songbird probably only sees them as a threat.
But this is not always the case. Many animals are charmed by members of other species. Zookeepers take their charges around to other exhibits, and some captive wild animals have emotional support dogs or cats of their own. Your household dog probably gets along perfectly well with the resident cat, and sometimes, even animals that you expect to be predator and prey make friends with each other as well.
In this video, we see a love blossoming between a Golden Retriever, and a little baby fawn he met in the woods.
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“A baby deer chose my dog and, well, it’s the friendship I didn’t know we needed,” reads the caption on this video of a fawn nosing at and following around a Golden Retriever named Hudson. “Animals are amazing. I can’t handle the cuteness! But seriously…who is writing this movie script?”
People poured in to share their own stories of surprising interspecies friendships and even offered titles for the inevitable screenplay.
“Must be nice to live in a Disney movie,” read a standard comment.
What To Do With a Baby Fawn in Your Yard
It’s completely standard for a mama deer to “abandon” her baby somewhere for the entire day. This gives her the opportunity to forage freely and return for her fawn at the end of the day. If she chose your yard—congratulations! That means she thinks your property is a safe space. Chances are, the fawn is fine (this one looks healthy and well-cared for). Signs that the mother has abandoned the fawn include a fawn that looks sickly, who is wandering around aimlessly, and crying, is covered is parasites, or has “crumpled ears” (a sign of dehydration). If the fawn has not been picked up but he next morning, it’s possible something has happened to its mother. Only then should you bother with calling wildlife rescue.
In this case, the fawn is just curious about the identity of its erstwhile babysitters.
Dogs and Deer
For some dogs, deer are just a curiosity. (This is also true for some cats, like this one, who has been friends with a local deer in her yard for going on a decade now.)
This Golden Retriever seems calm and well-mannered about the baby deer’s curiosity, but it’s good to keep an eye on the two of them anyway. My dog used to get very uptight about deer int eh yard, which was funny because she was nowhere near as big as they were.
Some dogs of all sizes will chase deer, while other dogs will ignore them. You know your own canine’s personality best, but until you are sure that your dog poses no danger to a deer (or vice versa) it’s best to keep them on a leash when around the wild animals.
In this case, we’re ready to start on the screenplay. Let’s call it: The Fawn and the Hound. Disney, call us.
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