RE: would you have done the same?
Me and a buddy were entering the woodsabout an hour beforesun up many years back when we heard this god awful scream cry, whatever. It actually scared us a little because we never heard such a noise and it was pretty damn dark. Anyway we continued onto find the source of the noise. When we did we came upon a fawn in a creek bedwith a dog eating out the fawn between it's back legs. The scream was the fawn crying out in pain or fear or whatever. The fawn laid there for a few minutes while we contemplated what to do. We were bowhunting and neither of us felt good about the idea of putting an arrow through this fawn to end it's misery.Imagine that, 2 bowhunters hunting deer and having one at our feet and not wanting to shoot it. You think PETA would understand that?While standing there discussing it the fawn got up and wobbled down the creek to our amazement. The deer had it's crotch eaten away for the most part and had stuff hanging out from between it's legs and still managed after a few moments to get itself up and amber off very slowly. These animals are very tough so before I took any action I would watch the situation for a little bit and see what develops. If I know I'm within easy response time from law enforcement I would call them. If the situation didn't improve and I was in a remote area where it would take law enforcement a very long time to respond I would dispatch the animalby whatever means was availableand would do the job quickly.