Posted: Jun 17, 2021 7:31 PM PT | Last Updated: June 18
A doe accompanied by her fawn.(photo credit: Janice Whybourne )
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A woman in Kimberley, B.C., has learned a painful lesson about how aggressive does can be during the fawning season.
Last Wednesday, Liz Royer and her Australian shepherd and blue heeler mix Patchy were attacked by a doe while she was running at around 5 a.m. MT near the intersection of Rotary Drive and Knighton Road.
WildSafeBC said it believes the doe has fawns bedding down in the area where Royer passed by.
Royer, 58, was sent to the hospital after the doe's hooves left her two big gashes on her legs, a bullet hole-shaped wound on her ankle and bruises all over her body.