Police Call Out early today to badly injured deer in private garden having been attacked by two terriers that drove it into Forest edge property and mauled it.....humanely dispatched.
Was the hole below the ear your doing? Poor thing, hardly humane!!
that was my kind of thought,the bruising could be caused by being stuck under a vehicle, however the dogs were there worrying the poor thing and thats that , well done in an unpleasant circumstanceno way of telling i suppose,but was this all there own doing or had it been in an rta before and they have attacked it after finding it.just wondering,as you would expect a healthy deer to outrun a terrier.(not including beddlingtons)
me also !No knowledge of events prior to suffice to say that the area is off of the main drag so I doubt it, suspect that this is one of a pair of twins local to the landowners garden,she had seen the doe with two followers ,in the field previously,she chased the dogs off so ID was based on her info. Her biggest gripe was with the Forestry Commission who would not attend "due to health and safety concerns", the property was 75 yds off of the Crown Estates! I am not going to go there!! When an animal is in distress and it is safe to proceed I will always do what is right for the animal,just my take on this...tin hat on standby!!!
Do wonder if I should post this but here goes any way.............
There is a springer round my way that is always pulling Roe down, pretty much any dog the size of a leggy JRT or over is capable of pulling Roe and Roe can be pretty daft under pressure, running in circles, falling over, running into things etc.
It really does not matter how well trained and behaved a dog is once it has it in its head that it can chase and pull deer it will be almost impossible to break it and they will cause an awful lot of very nasty wounds to lots of deer before they get it into their heads to go for a throat hold and finish it quickly and once that happens and the dog has the nack of it the owners may not even know the dog is killing deer!
Breaking a dog to deer is just like any other animal or farm stock, if you don't do it when they are young, or at all, they will never be steady to that animal and how many owners of pet dogs get chance to break their dogs to deer?
They may be rock solid around sheep, horses, cats and cattle but the one day they are presented with some thing that looks and smells like none of the above and all of a sudden that long forgotten prey drive kicks in and away they go, next thing you know the dog has the deer balled up against a fence or hedge and is tearing chunks out of it!
I'd say the injuries to that deer are 100% consistant with being pulled by inexperienced dogs, they generally pull the deer by the back end, rip the arse and hunches to bits as the deer runs then work their way up the back and onto the back of the neck once the deer is on the ground so as to keep away from the flailing hooves!