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Rescued Cambridgeshire deer discovered to be pregnant | Rescued Cambridgeshire deer discovered to be pregnant |
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Rescuers of a deer injured by a car were amazed to discover the animal was pregnant. | Rescuers of a deer injured by a car were amazed to discover the animal was pregnant. |
A motorist spotted the muntjac lying beside the road in Cambridgeshire and decided to help. | A motorist spotted the muntjac lying beside the road in Cambridgeshire and decided to help. |
He put the deer in his car boot, drove home and called Fenland Animal Rescue. | He put the deer in his car boot, drove home and called Fenland Animal Rescue. |
A scan found the animal had suffered lacerations and a dislocated ankle but also that she was heavily pregnant. The centre said on Sunday morning the doe had given birth overnight. | |
Joshua Flanagan from Fenland Animal Rescue said deer were difficult to treat and often had to be put down as human contact causes them too much stress. | |
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However, vets managed to treat and stabilise the doe and she is recovering well at the rescue centre. | |
Mr Flanagan said: "We had a specialist veterinary surgeon check the baby's health with great results all around." | Mr Flanagan said: "We had a specialist veterinary surgeon check the baby's health with great results all around." |
The deer was "safe and comfortable in our care and eating us out of house and home", he added. | |
They had hoped to release the muntjac under licence from Natural England before she gave birth. | |
However, that did not happen. "A beautiful healthy fawn was born with no complications," Mr Flanagan said. | |
He said it had been an "amazing decision" on the part of the motorist who picked her up and "a bit of a Christmas miracle" as deer rarely survived this kind of trauma and human intervention. | |
They hope to release the doe and her fawn in the near future. |
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