Baby Button deer rescued (From The Argus)
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Baby Button deer rescued
3:54pm Monday 2nd November 2009 in News
RESCUED: Jenson Button the baby deer
A baby fallow deer caught in stock fencing has been saved by volunteer rescuers.
East Sussex Wildlife Rescue and Ambulance Service (WRAS) staff were last week called to a footpath just off the A275, south of Danehill, near Haywards Heath.
Rescuers took large stretchers and equipment to help save what they thought would be an adult deer.
Fallow deer are usually only born up until the end of July, so WRAS staff were surprised to find the two-week-old female deer, which was suffering with hypothermia after being caught in stock fencing in the middle of a hedge.
She was given emergency treatment and delivered to carers in the Ashdown Forest who have experience of handrearing deer and getting them back into the wild.
The deer has been named Button, after Jenson Button, who was crossing the finish line to win the Formula 1 World Championship
