Here is a tear jerker........

On the way home from my fiance' s house a couple weeks ago, I saw a Big doe and a fawn w/ spots run infront of the a truck in front of me. The doe was killed on impact. The fawn somehow managed to only get knocked down. The truck never stopped. As a matter of fact, he stepped on it before i could get his liscense plate.

I stopped to check on the fawn. Little guy was too stunned to run away from me but was able to stand on his own. With his mother dead, I gave the little guy a looking over and all he had was a small cut on his head no broken bones or anything that i could see or feel. (That' s the closest i came to a live wild deer)

It was pretty late and I tried calling the Game Commission to have them come and pick up the baby fawn and maybe get it to a local deer farm or something. When i couldnt' get ahold of a Game Commissioner, i called the local police (huge mistake) to see if they could get ahold of G.C. or animal rescue to pick the little guy up. The police said that they would have somebody out there as soon as they could.

By the time the cop got there, i had a leash around the fawn and he was walking around a bit, kind of how a dog would have not putting up a fight or anything. The cop came over and was talkign to me about what happened. He thought i had hit the deer until he saw that there was no damage on my car and the doe 50 yards further up the road.

The cop walked over to the fawn and looked at him a bit. Pulled out his pistol and shot it in the head! This fawn was in good shape! He would have been fine, he just needed somebody to take care of him since his mother was killed.

I know what your thinking.... This fawn was a wild animal. You should have left him alone and wander into the woods alone. Cycle of life... He would have been food for the Coyotes.... blah, blah blah blah blah.

This little guy struck a heart cord... he was so small and fragile, and if i' d have known that that flippin cop was going to shoot him, i' d have put him in my car and taken him home and raised him myself.

I' ve shot many deer and don' t have a problem with killing deer for food or a mercy kill, but this fawn was fine and the event was outragous.

Needless to say, after the cop did that, i didn' t say a word to him. Just got in my car and left. I had some pretty choice words to say to him but that would have landed my butt in jail. I' ll admit, this tough guy cried the whole way home.......

Sad stories..... Let' s talk about something happy next time.