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see more: Heartwarming images capture an unlikely friendship blooming between a playful puppy and an orphaned baby deer, highlighting the beauty of compassion.
These are the heart-warming images which show an unlikely friendship between a dog and an orphaned baby deer.
The fawn was rescued after being found abandoned close to a Hop field by some farmers in Regensburg, Germany when it was just one-week-old.
Unable to fend for himself the baby deer would likely have died had he not been found. But luckily the farmer took him to a family he knew had raised deer before.
The family took the baby deer into their home, where they bottle-fed him, nursed him to full health and named him Hansi.
But it was the familyβs 12-week-old Australian Shepherd puppy Lia, who really took the fawn under her wing.
Lia immediately cared for Hansi and treated him as one of her own. Now just three-weeks later, the pair are inseparable and spend their days playing and cuddling up to one another.
Pet photographer and microbiologist Anna Auerbach, 28, was lucky enough to capture the pairβs special bond on camera, in this series of cute snaps.
In some shots, Lia can be seen trying to take a slurp from Hansiβs milk bottle and playfully nibbling his face.
Anna, from Regensburg, said: βThe two of them get along really well.
βThe shoot only took about thirty minutes.