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Terrible incident: fawn dies after being bitten by a free-ranging dog

2022-06-25T06:13:28.691Z


A dog is chasing a fawn, biting the face of the helpless young animal. After three days of hoping and worrying, the fawn died miserably despite all efforts: a sad story that happened to Prem - and apparently is not an isolated case.


A dog is chasing a fawn, biting the face of the helpless young animal.

After three days of hoping and worrying, the fawn died miserably despite all efforts: a sad story that happened to Prem - and apparently is not an isolated case.

Prem/Lechbruck - While volunteers use drones to search fields for fawns every day before haymaking in order to save these helpless creatures from death, there are apparently unrepentant dog owners who let their loose dogs go hunting for deer.

The Premer successful author and animal lover Nicola Förg can still see the horror of what happened on her doorstep.

Together with the Lechbruck fawn rescuers and a veterinarian, she spent three days trying to save a fawn that had apparently been bitten by a dog.

Vain.

Three days after the terrible find at the edge of the forest, the helpers had to bury the little animal.

But let's start at the beginning: While working in the field, Förg and her partner discover a fawn standing in the blazing sun at the edge of the forest.

"It was clear to us that something was wrong." The hunter was informed, and the Lechbruck fawn rescuer Larissa Leis let a drone fly.

They rescue the animal, the sight is terrible: the fawn's whole face is swollen shut, the animal could no longer see or drink.

Disoriented and dried out, it had strayed through the forest.

What about the mother?

This question cannot be resolved.

Was she bitten too?

Did the mother leave the hopeless fawn behind?

The Lechbruck veterinarian Gabi Bayrhof takes over the initial care of the animal.

"It squeaked, it wanted to drink, it really wanted to live," says Förg.

Larissa Leis from the Lechbruck fawn rescuers takes the animal to her farm in Wagegg near Lechbruck.

After attacking fawn: dog owners are unreasonable towards Förg

One day before the rescuers buried the fawn on the farm near Förg, two Labradors romp unleashed through the Premer Filz.

Unattended.

Certainly ten minutes, says Förg.

Ten minutes out of the owner's field of view is a lot of time, enough time to chase and bite a fawn.

Once again, the same drama is playing out that she and her significant other have experienced many times before.

They address the dog owners.

To put it mildly, they are not exactly insightful.

From "Shut up" to "My dog ​​has no hunting instinct" to "My dog ​​does not take orders", Förg has come across a lot.

At the same time, things are not going well for the fawn in the horse box.

Larissa Leis gets up every two hours at night to water the fawn.

The medication works, the face swells up.

Maggots have already infested the wounds.

The cheekbones and jawbones are also broken.

A death sentence.

"It was definitely a dog bite," says Leis, who herself, as the wife of a hunter, knows a thing or two about hunting.

A dog, she explains, would not bite fatally.

Unlike a fox - he takes on the throat.

On day three after the terrible find, the animal has to be put down.

"It was very close to all of us, something like that doesn't have to be," says Leis.

Because: The death of this young animal was not caused by the cycle of nature, "a human did it".

Fawn attacked by free-roaming dog: The incident at Prem is not an isolated case

Not an isolated case, as Leis knows.

She speaks of 15 to 20 cases in the past year in which free-roaming dogs would have targeted fawns.

It is particularly bad in the area of ​​the Lechbruck holiday village.

Holiday guests would like to let their dogs run around freely here, regardless of losses.

"Once we were there with the drone when a dog bit a fawn," says Leis.

They would have seen the dog run away, for the fawn any help came too late.

It was dead immediately. The police had already requested help because a dog had bitten a deer and the forest animal had to be shot.

The fawn rescuer's anger at unreasonable dog owners is enormous.

“We get up at 3 a.m. every day and use the drone to look for fawns.

And these idiots let their dogs run loose during breeding and mating season.”

By the way: Leis is a dog owner herself.

As well as Forg.

She emphasizes: "This is a matter of life and death." Every dog ​​breed, no matter how small, is now a nose animal that descended from the wolf - the hunting instinct lies dormant in the dog.

In addition, it could be enough for a fawn if it was only hunted: "If a ruminant does not keep to its ruminating phases, then it dies."

Fawn dies after being bitten by a dog: demand for signs during the breeding and settling season

The Revierjäger Günter Heiserer from Prem knows about the problem.

"If a dog runs two meters away from its master, it doesn't matter, but those who know how to poach are the problem." He warns dog owners not to forget that the fawns are still small and just learned to walk.

Heiserer has a dog himself and, in his function as a hunter, always speaks to other dog owners.

"Most are insightful," he says.

But: "There are always a few black sheep," he says, and seems a little helpless.

Nicola Förg and Larissa Leis go one step further: They clearly demand that the municipalities put up signs at the entrances to the forests and in the fields, stating that leashes must be kept in the forest and on the fields during the entire breeding and planting season.

You can find more current news from the region around Schongau at Merkur.de/Schongau.

Source: merkur

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