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Emily is a Roe Deer fawn and was found by a student from Colllingwood College in Camberley.
Fawns can walk within hours of birth but cannot follow their mother for great distances when she grazes to produce the milk she will need to feed them. In these early stages when the fawns are left many are prey to foxes.
  Fawns will rest still in the same place for many hours waiting for their mother to return from feeding. For this reason we always ask you to contact us before removing them incase they are waiting for their parent.
However in this case Emily was thin and had bite marks on her neck. Foxes kill many fawns in those first few days. She was alone cold and very hungry with a mark on her neck. Her mother may of been killed on the roads.
Emily the fawn would of waited and waited until she herself would of been killed. Fawns cannot survive without milk and thier young stomachs cannot cope with too many greens at that young age.
Thanks to the fast action of the student Emily was collected into his ruck sack and taken to school. Keeping Emily in the rucksack helped to keep her calm and away from the busy human world and was a great way to transport her. She spent a few hours in a warm office still in the students rucksack until we collected her. Tiny Emily is only a few days old.
She has settled in and made friends with everyone. She is now being bottle fed and introduced to various leaves and shoots and flowers. Rehabilitating a deer takes a lot of time and a lot of hard work. It is not easy but so worth it. She is now on the road to recovery and release.
She has hopefully been given a second chance thanks to fast thinking kind student.
Here's Emily playing football in the garden.
Maybe "Fawnaldo" would be a better name. Great agility and speed, fantastic crossovers with four legs and a free transfer for new green shoots and goats milk. Plus I bet she would draw the crowds.
How could Manchester United loose
"Fawnaldo"
Emily with Tuddy
EMILY'S NEW HOME
After several weeks of much love Emily has now gone to live with two other fawns at a home in Ashdown Forest. She is very strong now and drinking very well. We feel she needs the company of other fawns and as no others have appeared here we felt that the best for Emily was to move her. She loved sitting in the car so the journey wasnt too traumatic for her. Although it was traumatic for the two volunteers Anne and Chris who releuctantly took her there. We will all miss Emily.
 This is the first picture of her meeting her new friends in their new home. The other two grirls are Pearl and Crystal. Emily made herself at home straight away. She has a new cat , a new dog and some new fox cubs so it really is a home from home.
We hope to have an update and photos soon of her progress  from Chris and Sylvia who are her new foster parents. They are fantastic and will release Emily from their garden into the forest when she is ready. Fawns and indeed deer are extremely hard to rehabilitate and we are fortunate to of found such a fantastic home with such loving and experienced people. Chris and Sylvia have over thirty years experience with these fragile creatures. We look forward to an update and photos from them soon.
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