A GOOD MOTHER

We had a fawn show up in our yard a couple of weeks ago.  Tiny.  Looking like it needed help.  Husband had almost gotten it to come up to his hand but then it ran away.  That was the last we saw of it for a few days. Then we saw it, at least we thought it was the same one, tear through the backyard a week later, and I started noticing plants in the yard being gnawed on below the three foot level.

Husband spotted the fawn again one morning several days ago, still in the back yard.  We were worried that it was trapped, not being old enough to jump the fences, which is what I'm sure his mom had done.  The baby kept briefly appearing.  We weren't sure what to do about it.

For the past three or four nights Husband has been watching and mom shows up every evening around dusk.  And the baby is always in about the same spot, still inside the fence, laying down, at the time she shows up.  Mom has been on guard, apparently.  We assume she's been waiting for baby to get big enough to jump the fence.  We just weren't sure how we should interfere with the process.

You can see mom just left of center, and then baby against the fence laying down.

It just amazes me.  The power of the motherhood thing.

We left all the gates open tonight.  We're hoping the baby got out and that mom can get some sleep now!!

What we as a society could learn from this, don't you think!!