Earlier this week, walking across a field in Michigan, I startled a very small baby deer, or fawn, in the tall grass -- he started running ... and the dogs were after him ... and I ran to try to save him.
The fawn was very small -- smaller than canines ...
Leo the dog was on him, and had him in his mouth, and the fawn was crying when I got there and fought him off of the fawn. With Leo out of the way, I now between him and the fawn, Nashoba came up and gently touched noses with the fawn ... they stayed that way for a bit, and then the fawn then again got afraid and started running ... and again I was chasing the dogs and fighting them off ...
If it were just Nashoba, my wolf, there wouldn't be a problem. He listens and is very gentle with other animals ... but Leo is not gentle ... he is a killer ...
Fortunately, some adult deer showed up to help me [its parents?] ... perhaps it was only one ... but the large deer would run into the bushes and brush where Leo was hunting the fawn, and then Leo would come out of the brush chasing the adult ... this cycle went on a number of times before I got Leo under control ... I think he had completely run out of energy!
I hope the fawn was OK -- I think he was.
About Me
- Dr. TimE.
- Dr. Tim Ellison lives in the hills of Brown County in the Hoosier National Forest, spending time each day walking in the forest with his canine friends, taking pictures of flowers and picking wild mushrooms. At night it is said they swim across the lake looking at the stars. He also spends time writing, reading, and working on his homestead which includes a garden, fruit trees, catfish pond, forest, and natural prairie. He is presently installing a 4.5 kW PV array on his homestead. Dr. Ellison constults with select solar energy start-ups and V.C.s. Before retiring, Dr. Ellison spent 15 years leading groups designing and building particle accelerator technology for high energy and fundamental nuclear physics research at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and as the Beam Dynamics Group Leader at the Indiana University Cyclotron Facility. Shifting from accelerators to thin film PV, in 1994 Dr. Ellison joined Stan Ovshinsky at ECD in Michigan where he worked in technology scale-up, invented real-time diagnostics for production, and led the NREL PV Manufacturing R&D Program until retiring in early 2008. He has never owned a T.V.
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