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<p>I saw lots of nuts on the ground, accompanied by the first falling leaves ... I saw lime and bright orange spray paint marking some sort of recent trailrace paths
... and sadly, about an hour into my run I saw a poor fawn, still with spots, with it's left hind leg embedded in a fence and it was struggling to get loose :-(</p>
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<p>it wasn't there the hour earlier when I had arrived ... I tried to pull down on the fence and lessen the tension, hoping the poor little thing would kick loose ... didn't work ... then I actually sucked up my queasy guts and pulled down even harder and used my other hand to grab his leg and try to pull up and help it get loose ... didn't work and the poor thing was terrified of me and struggling so hard to try to get away form me that it was making it's leg bleed more ...</p>
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<p>I ran over to the campus security intercom/phone and called them and they said they'd send security over to see if they could do anything ... I stayed away from the poor thing in hopes it'd stop struggling so hard, it was exhausted and sort of just letting itself hang there so long as I didn't go near and send it into a panic ... I went down the hill to wait for the security guys and saw a mama deer and 1-2 other fawns lying on the other side of the fence ... I wonder if they were waiting for the baby who was crying? so sad.</p>
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<p>the security guys showed up about 10 minutes later ... they tried for a few to free the fawn and had no luck ... they ended up cutting the fence ... fawn was freed but in pretty tore up shape ... limping very badly and scared to death ... the security guys called in to somebody and said the fawn was free and that they'd had to cut one area on the fence; and that the back left leg on the fawn was pretty tore up .. then they took off ...</p>
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<p>I thanked them for coming and said I know that things don't look good for the poor thing but at least it doesn't have to die there stuck on the fence ... sigh ... I took off to run some more on the other set of paths and when I got back to my car a little over an hour later the fawn was nowhere to be seen ...</p>
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<p>I hope they sent somebody to see if they could help it or put it out of it's misery ...</p>
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<p>not my favorite running story ....</p>
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<p>it wasn't there the hour earlier when I had arrived ... I tried to pull down on the fence and lessen the tension, hoping the poor little thing would kick loose ... didn't work ... then I actually sucked up my queasy guts and pulled down even harder and used my other hand to grab his leg and try to pull up and help it get loose ... didn't work and the poor thing was terrified of me and struggling so hard to try to get away form me that it was making it's leg bleed more ...</p>
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<p>I ran over to the campus security intercom/phone and called them and they said they'd send security over to see if they could do anything ... I stayed away from the poor thing in hopes it'd stop struggling so hard, it was exhausted and sort of just letting itself hang there so long as I didn't go near and send it into a panic ... I went down the hill to wait for the security guys and saw a mama deer and 1-2 other fawns lying on the other side of the fence ... I wonder if they were waiting for the baby who was crying? so sad.</p>
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<p>the security guys showed up about 10 minutes later ... they tried for a few to free the fawn and had no luck ... they ended up cutting the fence ... fawn was freed but in pretty tore up shape ... limping very badly and scared to death ... the security guys called in to somebody and said the fawn was free and that they'd had to cut one area on the fence; and that the back left leg on the fawn was pretty tore up .. then they took off ...</p>
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<p>I thanked them for coming and said I know that things don't look good for the poor thing but at least it doesn't have to die there stuck on the fence ... sigh ... I took off to run some more on the other set of paths and when I got back to my car a little over an hour later the fawn was nowhere to be seen ...</p>
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<p>I hope they sent somebody to see if they could help it or put it out of it's misery ...</p>
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<p>not my favorite running story ....</p>