Poor ol' Doe - CWD? PICS

[Stone Knife]

It sure doesn't look that good, but it's doing what it has to for survival. It's amazing what a deer will do to survive.

[wingnut]

Looks to me like she's making a living.  Kinda different to see a deer dumpster diving but it's getting by.  I think I would let nature take it's course as long as it's up and doing it's thing.  If it beds up and won't or can't get up then it's time to put it down.

Mike

[Paul Mattson]

It's not starving that's for sure.  Just a fawn loosing its winter coat.

[Tom Leemans]

Her posture in a few pics leads me to believe she may have had internal injuries. Her body may be telling her to eat weird stuff. Just look at all the stuff your dog will get into, and they seem to get along o.k. Mother nature is strange sometimes.

[John Scifres]

Dude, if I as eating diapers I'd look like crap too.  She looks happy enough.  Don't assign human emotions to animals.  Don't inflict them on them either.  Leave her be.  If she's been eating diapers for months, I'm sure she has a reason.

[The Whittler]

Killdeer, it did surprise me that it gets that cold and snow. But does it stay for 5 to 6 months lol.

MY son worked down to Hico WV, for 5yrs. and he thought it wasn't that bad for temps. and the snow didn't stay.

Alan

[ChuckC]

She will live or die.  That she should do either should not be our choice unless we take her as food for ourselves or our families.  Nature deals with all of us in its own way.  Sometimes it is not so great.  

From what I can see of the pictures, granted, it is only a few pictures,  she is doing OK. She has some issues and she is dealing with them.  

  She has learned to garbage pick, as have many animals that live in the neighborhoods with man.  Why not...we waste so much.   Let her be.   JMHO
ChuckC

[monterey]

Deer won't usually eat green grass.  They go for broadleaf plants (forbes), etc.  Feeding a deer hay in the winter will kill it.

[Shawn Leonard]

John and Chuck have it right, just think if you had a broken leg and your hair was falling out and even in a lot of pain, but ya had a full belly and were getting by, would ya want me to come up and put a bullet in ya? Didn't think so, and if deer had the ability to reason I doubt she would. They don't, so let nature do what it does, she is far from dead. Shawn

[sswv]

hey Al!   just let Bill know where she is...PROBLEM SOLVED.  

[Big_Al]

Bill saw her yesterday on his way home.  I went around the block and picked up Donna, she watched the deer with me for about 20 min or so - it was only about four houses down from their place!

[sswv]

4 houses down.....that deer is IN TROUBLE!