Adorable baby reindeer

Adorable baby reindeer hand-reared in Harborough family home with spaniel 'siblings'

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00:00I'm Angie Nelson and this young chap behind me is called Lars. His mother was a first-time mum

00:16and all went well when she first carved and then we noticed that he was hungry still so the next

00:26day although he was feeding he wasn't really getting anything so we had the vet out to just

00:32check on how much milk she had and it wasn't much at all. We gave her a jab of oxytocin which is a medicine

00:38which helps milk come down and we left it for another 24 hours and still nothing so we were okay

00:47we either let him die or we try and feed him so obviously we're not going to let him die so we

00:55know it's a massive amount of time which you have to put into calves when they've had when you kind

01:01of pull them for the mum so it's feeding every two hours. I've felt really privileged that I can

01:06have done this but also very tiring because unlike babies which you'd feed you know they're portable

01:14and transportable he's not so so yes so I've kind of been in between you kind of the different rooms

01:23that he's been in the garden but he's now he's two weeks old tomorrow morning and he's thriving and

01:31so actually that's reward enough. He'll be in here or based here until he's feeding he's not feeding

01:39through the night so the next step is from our family room where I'm sleeping with him overnight

01:46he will then come in stay with the dogs overnight and then we'll transfer him into a stable gradually

01:52with another reindeer and see how that goes but we've kind of just got to play it by ear and kind

01:58of see what he's telling us as well as what we are guiding him for. He's quite determined he's very

02:03playful but he's a climber which is why he's called Lars. He was known after the Swedish

02:10imagineer Lars Olaf Goran Knapp who was the first guy to climb Everest without oxygen or a Sherpa and

02:20so he can climb he'd climb over sofas he can climb out the pen which we'd had for him and the main

02:28reason is he climbed upstairs at three days old so yes so that's kind of how he ended up with that name.

02:40you