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Deericks fawn is 3 weeks old today! Healthy, spunky and safe so far. (Thanks to wolf urine 😣) He needs a name!! Here are the top 5 choices: Earl Vinny (venison 😑 guess who wants that) John Deere Fawnzi Squirt Sorry Zander, Zandeer didn’t make the cut.

Cornelius and Otto have been friends since the beginning. They are now 6 months old, and Corny is much bigger than Otto, but they still love to play together!

Eleanor the dog and Felix have a very special relationship. Felix doesn’t even mind getting swatted over and over with Ellie’s tail! 😂

Deerick and her new fawn are doing fabulous, but the rest of the herd of cats and dogs are SUPER interested in the newcomer. Mama only tolerates so much and then she gives them a little nip.

This rescued axis deer gave birth to her third fawn last night. Deerick, the mama, was surrounded by the family dogs in that precious moment, and she didn't mind that at all because she was raised with them. So adorable!

Doxie loves it when the puppies this family fosters are smaller than him! He tries to get them to play and loves hanging with them!

I often turn on a water mister for Deerick when Texas turns the heat up to stupid hot. It had a bubble in it and it gave her a fright! 😂

Titan loves kittens! Each spring this home takes in a few bottle feeders to foster and he happily helps!

Deerick, a rescue deer, has finally started living outside full time. Every so often Titan will try to convince her to play and we are so happy it's captured on camera!

Chunk insisted on patting Titan on the head. Titan wasn’t a big fan of being petted by another dog! 🤣

Otis got wet in a rainstorm and was waiting to come in when little Deerick decided she would give him a bath. So precious!

Cornelius has gotten a little big to be crawling into bed with Otto. They both used to sleep in there when they were much littler!

Cornelius the puppy and Deerick the rescued deer are most definitely BFFs. What a heartwarming clip!

Otto can’t catch that darn tail that keeps following him everywhere! He keeps getting distracted by that gorgeous kitten in the mirror that he can quite catch either.

After Deerick was weaned through the night, we started putting her outside more and more. Every time she saw me she wanted a bottle though. It took awhile to wean her 100%. I even had to stop going outside too much to see her for a couple of days.

Otto and Cornelius are rescue animals that became close friends. Cornelius (puppy). We were supposed to be fostering. He and Otto got along so well we ended up keeping him! They entertain each other so well!

It didn’t not take Deerick, our rescue axis fawn, to catch on to a bottle!

This axis deer gets to enjoy some of the flowers left over from Easter! She is getting ready to have a baby any day now!

Otto the kitten and Cornelius the puppy are best friends and they LOVE bubbles! Cuteness overload!

Deerick the fawn and Shades the cat have been best of friends since the first week these people brought Deerick home! Amazing!

Fawn cleaning herself and yawns.

Deerick the rescue fawn is getting used to her new "herd" in this priceless clip. Best friends forever!

Deerick was getting used to be outside more, but still like the comfort of having a human or dog close.

I was worried about whether I should try and rehab this little rescue. I spoke to my vet and he helped me form a plan on feeding and what to feed and said I had just as good of chance of rehabbing her as a refuge. Since she was a axis female I decided to do. (Had it been a male I wouldn’t have done it, and had it been a whitetail it wood have been illegal) I started with a colostrum mix for ruminants for the first day or two, then switched to a regulars formula. She took the bottle like a champ! I was so relieved... but also tired. She needed to be feed often, even through the night. 😴😴

One day this woman and her friend went on a hike with their four dogs. As they were heading down a trail two ladies walked towards them with a little skinny dog following at their heels... or so they thought. As they came closer they realized it was a fawn that was following them and licking their legs. They spoke with the two ladies and they said the fawn wouldn’t leave them alone. The area where they were hiking is an area where one man in the community who is still allowed to trap and sell axis deer to game farms (he is grandfathered in). Often fawns are left behind when their moms are taken away. The little fawn was in distress. Fawns are born scentless and their moms go off to feed for up to 8 hours after birth before they come back and encourage them to walk. The fawns lay motionless. Often animals and humans will walk right past and not eve know they are there. This particular fawn had a will to live, so they took her home!