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A beautiful, white-tailed fawn with hundreds of spots is one of the most heartwarming sights in the natural world. Annie and I wondered where its mother was and hoped it hadn’t been abandoned.

The fawn appears to be sick, cold, weak, injured or covered in parasites. If the fawn is bleating without ceasing for several hours, and you observe that the mother has not returned in 24 hours.

And all will be fed in short order. Fawns can walk on somewhat shaky legs within just a few hours. And does usually will move their fawns away from the birthing areas within just a few hours.

Since fawns don’t have a scent it means predators aren’t able to find them unless humans interfere. Its one of the reasons the mother deer stays away.

When the mothers are out recharging their energy supply away from their young, the deer fawns sometimes are assumed by the public to be abandoned when, in fact, their mothers are nearby.

Fawns can be camouflaged by their spots, and have very little scent, so the mother stays away for up to eight hours at a time to keep the fawn hidden away from predators.

Sadly, the mother passed away," said the police department on its Facebook. Officer Wright managed to remove the fawn, warm it up and get it breathing.