Baby Deer

pic by pwa

Boy, aren't these little guys gorgeous. Trust me, they don't even look real. Although their nose looks like a dogs, it's not leathery at all, but more like velvet. They have eyelashes a supermodel would claw your eyes out for. I'd love to tell you where they are, but then I'd have to kill you, as I've been sworn to secrecy.

There's a couple that I know that spends a great part of their waking time rehabilitating animals back to health for release to their natural habitat. The animals have either been injured in some way or perhaps abandoned by their mothers, for various reasons. They hold the proper credentials for this type of work. Currently the guest list includes a screech owl, a corn snake, a kestrel, three racoons, and these guys here, among many others, that's just all that sticks in my mind at this minute........There are also various cats and dogs that get rehabilitated and then are available for adoption. I've got a feline that came from there that was found in a McDonalds dumpster, although most times he's just a squirrel........

These particular deer, who we'll call "girl deer" and "boy deer", since that's what we call them, were birthed when their mom had an altercation with an S.U.V., which needless to say, she didn't survive. So, now they're a few weeks old and are consuming baby formula at the rate of $13 a day, to be released in a little over three months, hopefully. These folks do this pretty much out of a passion, and recieve no formal monetary compensation.

Here's where the telethon starts. If anyone out there would like to throw a ten or a fiver their way, or give 'em a bag of Purina Cat Chow, drop me a line and I'll be sure they get it. It would be mucho appreciado and you would be doing yourself a bit of a karma dance.........L8R