Tillamook Sheriff cadet rescues stranded fawn from hungry coyotes [Video]

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A cadet with the Tillamook County Sheriff’s Office Marine Patrol rescued a fawn stranded on a steep hillside near a pair of hungry coyotes on June 6.

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Marine Deputy Dennis Greiner and Cadet Brodie Cloud found the fawn while recovering a canoe from a fatal boating accident on the Nehalem River.

“While approaching the area of the capsizing, they observed two coyotes on an island interested in something on a small cliff on the opposite side of the river,” the Sheriff’s Office said. “They realized it was a deer fawn that had fallen off the edge and was unable to climb back up to its awaiting mother on top.”

Cloud, who is an avid hunter and is familiar with handling wild animals, the sheriff’s office said, climbed the hillside and returned the fawn to its mother on the …