RSPCA helps roe bucks.

[VSS]

Roe deers rescued by RSPCA and firefighters in Chichester

Their antlers became tangled were unable to free themselves.

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[Sampo]

Claire was able to place a towel over the deers’ heads to keep them calm, and Becky was finally able to help manoeuvre their antlers and free them before the team braced themselves to free both deer together.

I am so gonna hug the next deer a see

 

[Woodsmoke]

Edited: Thought better of it

 

[foxhunter]

Ffs rutting

 

[Grannysmith]

Shame that roe suffer from post capture myopathy and are probably dead from stress by now
You would think that the rspca would be aware of that little fact.

 

[Woodsmoke]

Shame that roe suffer from post capture myopathy and are probably dead from stress by now
You would think that the rspca would be aware of that little fact.

More or less what I was going to say. But you were far more polite than I . . .

 

[VSS]

More or less what I was going to say. But you were far more polite than I . . .

Funny thing. I've seen plenty of posts on here over the years by stalkers who've released trapped deer or otherwise done their best to help an animal in distress, and they're always followed by posts saying things like "well done" and "I'd have done the same" etc etc, yet when a non-hunting organisation does exactly the same as you or I would have done, everyone finds reasons to criticise. That's a bit sad, really.

 

[Woodsmoke]

Funny thing. I've seen plenty of posts on here over the years by stalkers who've released trapped deer or otherwise done their best to help an animal in distress, and they're always followed by posts saying things like "well done" and "I'd have done the same" etc etc, yet when a non-hunting organisation does exactly the same as you or I would have done, everyone finds reasons to criticise. That's a bit sad, really.

I don't think so. The RSPCA seen to go out of their way to compound their mistakes while preaching to the rest of us and ignoring the law. Notwithstanding their inherent hypocrisy as an organisation. And I'm pretty sure most stalkers would recognise a situation where an animal is likely to make a recovery, as opposed to one where post-capture myopathy is a risk.

For my part, both would have been shot in this instance

 

[thorneyglatt]

Is that mange ? Assuming it survived the stress, would the coat ever recover !

 

[Grannysmith]

Facts are the rspca have set themselves up as experts when they clearly have no idea they will have prolonged the suffering by hadling them
Its not critisism its fact

 

[Tony Morgan]

Shame that roe suffer from post capture myopathy and are probably dead from stress by now

They'd been left overnight and not freed themselves, so they'd have died anyway. Better to separate them.

 

[Grannysmith]

Better to put them down

 

[Foxshot]

Is that mange ? Assuming it survived the stress, would the coat ever recover !

Are you being serious?

 

[thorneyglatt]

Are you being serious?

I'm asking because I'd like to know.

 

[Farmer_J]

I'm asking because I'd like to know.

Shedding its winter coat

 

[BryanDC]

There was an article in our monthly hunting magazine with an alternative to what the RSPCA did.

 

[deerstalker.308]

Well I was just glad they weren’t described as stags, or being rare and endangered due to persecution.....

 

[8x57]

Post capture myopathy may well be a possibility, but I think that under the circumstances releasing them and giving them a chance rather than simply shooting them was the right thing to do.
There again you have to actually be there to get a proper assessment of the situation rather than just relying upon newspaper reports which aren't always the most reliable source of information.

 

[scotch_egg]

Do fallow suffer post capture myopathy?

 

[User00025]

Is that mange ? Assuming it survived the stress, would the coat ever recover !