After being abandoned by his mother after birth, a rare white-faced fawn has found a loving home at a Michigan animal farm, according to MLive.com. Dragon, the newborn deer, is just a week and a half old and is as lovely as his name suggests.
According to Fox 17, Dragon was born at Deer Tracks Junction, an animal farm in Cedar Springs, Michigan.
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Hilary Powell, the farm’s owner and the fawn’s human surrogate mom, told the news site that Dragon was abandoned by his mother, most likely because he was born with a white face, which would make it impossible for him to live in the wild.
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“In the wild, they’re very, very rare,” Powell said of Dragon’s species.Bunny, the fawn’s mother, is a whitetail Piebald deer.
Dragon, who was born with brilliant blue eyes and a pink nose, was presumably shunned after birth because he didn’t appear like the other fawns, according to Powell of MLive.com.
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“Normally, they have a black nose,” Powell told Fox 17 News. “
[A pink nose] is really a disadvantage in the wild, because it is particularly sensitive to the light and can induce sunburn.”
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But tiny Dragon is now being loved and cared for.
Powell and her family will continue to bottle-feed the little boy until he is ready to greet farm visitors and participate in deer games.
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