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Show Cute Lil Fawn: Leave It Alone People who discover apparently ap-parently abandoned fawns and take them home are doing a disservice to the fawn and them selves. Wildlife Resources officers have picked up several fawn deer from people in Utah this year and suspect many more are being confined by other well-intentioned people. Fawns make loveable pets until they grow up, then they become be-come a problem and people call Wildlife Resources officers and want them picked up. Deer are perfectly capable of inflicting injury to humans, especially during the rut when the buck becomes unpredictable. unpredict-able. Deer released from captivity cap-tivity have become semi-domesticated and are easy victims to poaching and highway mishaps. mis-haps. It is against the law to remove re-move a deer from the wild, or to have deer in captivity contrary con-trary to the Wildlife Resources Code. Fawn deer and other young wildlife are seldom abandoned even though it may appear so. The mothers are usually nearby near-by and have no intention of leaving leav-ing their young. |