SALISBURY TOWNSHIP, Pa. — Salisbury Township police are increasing patrols near a local Girl Scouts Camp after a three-month-old fawn was found shot in the head with a BB gun.
“The entry was behind her right eye, and it’s currently lodged behind her left eye in the orbital socket,” said Jessica Metzgar, who has been rehabbing fawns for four years.
Pocono Wildlife Rehabilitation brought the fawn to her hours after it was found near the Mountain House Girl Scout Camp on West Rock Road.
Meztgar, who is part of the Wilderz at Pocono Wildlife, says the fawn had several seizures and she was worried that the fawn might not make it through the night.
But after some medical attention, Metzgar became more hopeful.
The Pennsylvania Game Commission says its aware of the incident and is investigating.
Metzgar says the fawn needs more rehabilitation, and that she wonders how this happened.
“For it to go from her skull from one side to another, they would have had to have been close enough that they knew it was a fawn, so there’s definitely a concerns that it was intentional,” she said.
In the meantime, if you would like to help with the fawn’s rehabilitation, you can contact Pocono Wildlife Rehabilitation.