When fawns become bucks
Jodi Proger, a former Belmont County resident, was known by her family as an animal lover to her core, with one member of that family being an actual animal. In 2013, when Proger saw a doe killed by a car and a distressed fawn nearby, she scooped it up, took it home, named it Wheezer and raised it as...
Jessica Thrasher,
April 29, 2026
3 min read
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