Oh, Deer

Almost every week during summer and early fall, the rehab center gets calls about injured or orphaned fawns.
The center doesn’t have a fawn rehabilitation permit issued by the state to care for fawns, and so we refer people to one of the handful of rehabilitators across the state.
But most times, fawns don’t need rescued. People often seeing them sitting quietly all alone, and assume they’ve been abandoned. Most likely, the mother is off foraging and will return to the fawn. The best course of action is to walk away. The mother won’t return if a human’s nearby.
But if a fawn’s injured, call a licensed fawn rehabilitator. The North Carolina Department of Wildlife Resources keeps a list on its Web site: http://www.ncwildlife.org/fs_index_06_coexist.htm