Introducing Deer Little Rupert
02/10/2008 03:28
THIS orphaned baby
deer is a modern-day Bambi – after his mother
was killed by a car while she was still
pregnant with
him.The tiny muntjac deer was delivered three weeks early by Caesarean section after staff at Tiggywinkles Wildlife Hospital were unable to save his mother.
Christened Rupert, the six-inch tall deer is now recovering in an incubator at the Buckinghamshire hospital and recently opened his eyes for the first time.
Although he weighs just over a pound, the tiny deer is doing well and staff are confident he will be just fine.
A spokesman for Tiggywinkles said: "Rupert's mother had very severe injuries.
"We brought him out and got him breathing and then he went into an incubator on oxygen. He is now being fed by a tube."
He added: "Deer are very, very tricky but this one has spirit. He's an extremely feisty little guy and quite pushy."
What a deer little chap!
SINC SAYS:
We ran a very similar story that happened near Saskatoon this past spring.
