Hunting and Fauna: Arezzo, the Province launches awareness campaign "I'm not abandoned, leave me in the woods" against those erroneous behaviors which, even if in good faith, can cause serious damage to the fauna.
In recent days, numerous requests for intervention have been received from the offices of the Province and the Veterinary Service of the USL to rescue small deer (roe deer, fallow deer and red deer) mistakenly considered abandoned or injured. In almost all cases they were children in perfect health, which simply adopted anti-predatory behaviors or in any case camouflaged themselves among grasses and shrubs. It is necessary to reiterate that, in these cases, even if moved by the best intentions, the greatest danger for these little ones is represented by the presence, or worse, by the intervention of the person making the report.
In fact, the human presence in the immediate vicinity of the puppies, in addition to preventing the approach of the mother, can facilitate the action of any predators present in the area.
For many years the Province of Arezzo, in collaboration with the Order of Veterinary Doctors of the Province of Arezzo, the Territorial Areas of Hunting and the Hunting Associations, has been promoting an awareness campaign aimed at the "non-recovery" of apparently distressed wildlife.
It is necessary to know that, in the first weeks of life, the young roe deer spends little time with his mother, who only approaches to breastfeed him and moves away at the first sign of danger and will not return to him until he feels safe. ; the little one is protected exclusively by its total lack of smell and by its mimicry given to it by the colors of the coat and by the absolute immobility.
This behavior is also adopted by other wild species to escape predation. For this reason, every time we meet a roe deer we must neither touch nor move it, because the same hands will contaminate it with our smell, depriving it of an important means of defense. The roe deer, like other wild species, is not a domestic animal, it lacks those characteristics of docility, adaptability, confidence with man that distinguish companion animals such as dogs and cats.
These puppies, made temporarily "affectionate" by our daily contact, once adults can assume aggressive behaviors, also directed against the man himself, for territorial and sexual reasons, such as to make them dangerous; they also have behavioral and ecological needs that are not suited to life in small spaces, such as the garden or small fences.
Every year, dozens of wild babies are taken away from their mothers and their natural habitat because they are mistakenly considered abandoned. This behavior, albeit inspired by good faith, as well as interfering with the delicate balance of nature, violates a specific rule (Article 21 of Law 157/92) which prohibits and sanctions the detention and theft of individuals belonging to wildlife.
18 May 2013
Province of Arezzo
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