![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “I asked him why he wanted to save her,” she said, the other day. Instead, he announced that he wanted Butera to take the fawn home and give her a good life. Butera fully expected Glick to ask her to euthanize the little animal. The farm’s owner, Albert Glick, a Mennonite who usually displayed a pragmatic attitude toward his animals, brought the fawn to a local veterinarian, Melanie Butera. Her mother, probably sensing her disability, refused to nurse her. (Their semen would then be sold to farms that raise deer for hunting compounds.) Does were of little value, except as vessels for the next attempt at antlered majesty. She was born near Canton, Ohio, on a farm that was breeding deer in hopes of producing bucks with staggering horns. This was certainly the case with a white-tailed deer named Dillie (2004-2022). A doe-a deer, a female deer-is not always greeted like a drop of golden sun. ![]()
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