My deer-est friends!
Eleanor’s special bond with two fawns she rescued as newborns
WHEN she found Eliza the abandoned newborn red deer, Eleanor HerveyBathurst knew just what to do.
For she had already rescued another fawn, Inchy, and nursed him to health.
So giving round-the clock feeds and plenty of attention was nothing new.
Fallow deer Inchy, now eight, has even helped the solicitor nurture Eliza, who was born over the Platinum Jubilee weekend last month and was ‘in a bad way’.
Miss Hervey-Bathurst, 26, said: ‘For the first few weeks it was hectic, as I was commuting to London for work and having to fit in the feeds around that. We do have a bond now, and she will follow me around and come to me if she’s scared. She will squeak for me when she can’t see me.’
Inchy is back with his herd on the family’s estate in Hampshire but leaves it to spends time with Miss Hervey-Bathurst – and Eliza. ‘Eliza’s infatuated with Inchy,’ she said. ‘The first day I let her out with the deer he looked after her the whole day. They go for little walks together.
‘It’s a bit like having an older dog and a puppy. Even when Inchy is annoyed by Eliza, he tolerates her.’
For now, Eliza joins only the fallow herd on the estate but the eventual aim is to return her to her own red deer herd.