Meet Feather. Feather is a beautiful, delicate young fawn with large, brown, doe eyes that melt the hearts of everyone who visits her. She came to us from the Arizona Department of Game and Fish after she was confiscated from someone who had been keeping her illegally. Because Game and Fish has concerns over Chronic Wasting Disease, which is highly contagious, they do not allow deer that have been living in captivity to be returned to the wild for fear this disease could be introduced into wild herds. Feather could not be returned to the wild and was going to be euthanized unless she could be placed in a licensed zoo.

Fortunately for this beautiful fawn, Southwest Wildlife, in addition to being an accredited sanctuary, is also a licensed zoo. When the game department called and told us about her desperate circumstances, we agreed to give her a home. She will live in our nature center with our other deer, as an ambassador of her species, meeting the public as part of our educational program. When you meet her, you will fall in love with her too.