Man rescues an injured baby deer and reunites her with her mother
One day Darius Sasnauskas walked through the forest and saw a mother deer walking through an open field with her two fawns. He immediately noticed that one of the two animals had an injured leg and was not able to help itself.
The mother of the fawn was also well aware of her injured baby-deer being in danger. In addition, her other young and herself were also in danger while on the open field. Below you see the deer in distress.
The animal could hardly walk because its paw was broken. And the mother was left with a painful choice: Either to stay and let both herself and her two babies be a target for predators or to leave the injured fawn behind.
Darius, who was able to catch everything on video, did what he HAD TO do.
Darius decided to take action. He had waited all night to offer help and now it was time. He cautiously lifted the animal and took it home with him.
When he got home his pets were curious about the little guest. Darius has a dog and a few cats who had never met a strange creature like this. They were confused and did not know how to relate to the little deer. Fortunately, it changed soon, and only a day passed before they were used to their new roommate.
The story got even more beautiful when Darius decided to look for the mother.
The days passed, and the fawn still had a broken leg that would have to heal quickly. The search for the mother was in full swing.
Darius had never had a deer in the house before, but he knew exactly what to do. To give the broken leg some firmness, he made a splint out of an oatmeal box for little Bambi.
After five days the animal was on its way to recovery, hopping happily about again, and now the mother really had to be found. Every night Darius went with the animal to the edge of the forest in the hope of finding its mother.
They saw a lot of deer, but the mother was nowhere to be seen. They could not find her, and the fawn continued following Darius.
A couple of evenings in a row Darius took her along to the forest, but the same thing happened again and again. The fawn continued to follow him and it did not really understand leave, and live in its natural habitat.
One weekend Darius had to leave home. When Darius was away, and his friends were taking care of the animal, they suddenly saw a deer. The mother deer showed herself. Apparently, she had known all the time that her child was with Darius! Since Darius was away, the small animal did not have a 'mother figure' to stay with, and she quickly returned to her real mother.
Darius is happy that the little animal returned back to nature, where it belongs:
"I hope she is safe and has a happy life in the wild," he says.
Watch the beautiful video below: