CAPTURE MYOPATHY - YOUR TOUCH - YOUR CARING - CAN KILL WILDLIFE - #1 Cause of Death to wild animals from people wanting to help them. Unless trained, unless you follow the advice of wildlife rescue people - your caring, you touch will most likely kill them - Leave them alone. This is my sad tale - IT IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT FOR PEOPLE TO LISTEN AND FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS OF PLACES LIKE GILA WILDLIFE RESCUE (Local For Me) https://facebook/pages/Gila-Wildlife-Rescue/110956179092668 Many people know me as the person who started Bear Creek Herbs many years ago and for that reason I often end up involved in situations where help is needed or people think I can help. This little fawn ended up at my doorstep. I am about the sixth person in chain of custody with this fawn. I contacted Gila Wildlife Rescue and I am following their instructions until they can pick up. It now shows signs of Capture Myopathy - Sub-acute capture myopathy: acidosis causes muscle and kidney damage. Urine may be a dark brown color. Recumbent animals often have their necks twisted back. Death follows within a few days. - “Wildlife International” Capture Myopathy is simply, in this case, too much human interference. Too much human caused stress. TOO MANY People became involved with this WILD creature. Too much cuddling, Too much treating it like a pet. Most of all good people by nature did not follow the advice of an expert. I highly respect Dennis Miller and Gila Wildlife Rescue. People should listen to their words about wildlife. Please call an expert for advice, but mostly leave wild animals alone. If it is a baby and its mother has been killed, that is one thing, BUT STILL you need to call an expert for advice and follow their instructions. We are blessed in our area to have someone to call like Gila Wildlife Rescue. Almost everyone has a cell phone, iPad, portable computer or access to a computer within just a few minutes. Google your questions on what to do when concerning “saving wild creatures”. Almost all sites I visited state - Leave them alone or call a wild animal rescue center. The update with this fawn is not good. Its Capture Myopathy is fairly severe. I believe I am watching it die right before my eyes. It is drinking some water, will not touch special formula or goats milk anymore. Only a little water. The shock of being handled by so many people is just way too much for this little fawn. It literally is dying from contact from all who wanted to save it. Do not get me wrong, these people who tried to save this fawn are probably good people in heart. They just did not listen to the expert advice that was given and most people forget the fundamental principle that wild animals are not like pets. You can not apply pet concepts to wild animals. They are wild. Update, this little fawn went into organ failure and died during the night. A sad tale. Great article here on Capture Myopathy: wildinstincts.wordpress/2012/09/09/capture-myopathy/ A recent article in our local paper: Human kindness killing fawns in Grant County Fawns die of fright when talked to, petted or touched By Susan Dunlap sdunlap@scsun-news on Twitter @SCSunNews Posted: 08/05/2014 05:25:18 PM MDT SILVER CITY >> They may look cute. They may look cuddly. They may appear abandoned, sitting all alone looking weak and helpless. But a fawn found by itself should not be touched, taken or fed, founder and director of Gila Wildlife Rescue, Dennis Miller, said. Being cuddled is the very last thing it needs, Miller said. It scares them so bad, they die of fright. And, right now, its fawning season, so does are dropping their fawns. Residents are finding baby deer in all kinds of unexpected locations. Miller said just last week he got approximately 15 calls from different individuals because they thought theyd found an abandoned baby deer. Miller calls the situation really frustrating. Courtesy photo A fawn brought to Gila Wildlife Rescue. The only species Ive ever heard of that abandons their young is humans, Miller said. A wild animal wont abandon a baby unless somethings wrong with it. Miller said that when deer give birth, the mother stays out of sight so she doesnt lure predators to the baby. But the doe keeps an eye on her offspring and comes by regularly, often at night, to feed her newborn. Part of the problem, Miller said, is that we now have what he calls an urban deer population. So its not hard for people in Grant County to stumble upon a baby deer. Miller said he gets up to approximately 150 calls a year regarding found fawns. Miller explained that the mother deer has a strong smell. She also has an after-birth odor to her. The fawn, however, smells neutral. By staying away, the doe protects her baby because a predator cant find the fawn. As long as the mother deer stays out of sight, the predator cant sniff out the baby deer. But to an individual who discovers the fawn, the baby may appear abandoned, even though its not. In addition, only individuals who have permits with the government are allowed to take a fawn if they are trying to take care of the animal themselves. This makes taking fawns illegal. But even more than that, Miller calls taking fawns ecologically immoral and said the human is, even if unwittingly, stealing the baby from the mother. Miller said he got a call a few years ago from someone who had found a fawn and had taken the baby deer home. Miller said he walked into the persons home to find that person watching TV with the fawn in the individuals lap. People should have more responsibility, Miller remarked. We have a stewardship of responsibility with wildlife. But people dont stop and think. Many people may just not know that taking a fawn is actually harmful to the baby. But the stress of being handled by a human for a deer is called capture myopathy. According to wildlife rescue blogger Mark Naniot, who serves on the Wildlife Rehabilitation Advisory Committee to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, capture myopathy is also known as white muscle disease. The stress of being handled leads to lactic acid build-up in the animals muscles. The animal could die within minutes or survive for months, but either way, a wild animal will often die of heart failure due to the fear. Naniot said there is no treatment for capture myopathy. Miller agrees. He said even talking to the baby deer can trigger capture myopathy. Humans are, after all, a natural enemy to deer. And wildlife are not pets. Another problem, according to Miller, is that not only do people mistakenly try to rescue a found fawn, they give the baby deer milk. This leads to an illness called scours which Miller said always leads to the death of the animal. The best way to help a baby deer is to simply leave it alone. Miller said his organization, run by himself and his wife, Denise, has been in the area for 35 years and every couple of years or so, they have to try to get the word out to people to not intervene if they walk up and spy a baby deer sitting somewhere all by itself. Inevitably, at this time of year, when the does are fawning, the Millers start getting a lot of calls because well-intentioned people find baby deer and take it thinking they are helping a baby. But by doing so, the individuals only do harm.
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