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Yes. His father.
Their GSD is the one that mauled one of my birds early on when I was wing clipping to keep them in the pen. His father finished her off so she didn't suffer any longer.
The buck is still alive but barely. The Game Warden is coming to take care of him and remove him from the property.

Thanks for the update Tonya. Sorry this happened at your place today.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Morning Cafe. Very sorry but I agree not your fault @DobieLover

 

[LaFleche]

Morning Cafe. Thanks for the coffee.

My day is off to a horrible, heartbreaking start.

I was late getting out to the birds again this morning. I couldn't sleep so didn't head out until 7:30. As I approached the gate to the pen, I could see the electric net that runs along the back of the pen pulsing hard. I ran over and flipped the switch to turn it off.

A young deer was caught in the fence. His small antlers had a hot wire wound tight around them right on his head and another loop was around his muzzle. He was laying in the freezing cold water of the moat.

I ran back in the house and got a pair of wire cutters and cut him loose but he was too heavy for me to pull out of the water so, in my pajamas with my hair sticking up every which way (I didn't care one stinking big about how I looked), I ran to the neighbors and asked if her son could come over and help me with the deer. His mom went in to wake up her husband instead and they came over. He pulled the buck out and took off his coat and dried him with it. The wife went back for a comforter and covered up the buck to try to get him warm.

The deer is lifting his head so they want to see if he will get up and leave on his own.
I disagree. I think he should be put out of his misery.

Every time I think of what that poor thing went through last night, I start crying again. 10,000 volts pulsing through his head and face while he lay helpless in cold water in 33 degree temperatures all night long. It's just wretched.

And I feel guilty as hell because it's my fence he got caught in. I'm just trying to protect my flock not torture the local wildlife.

That sure is a horrible way to start the day, I am very sorry.

Having survived this ordeal so far might hint to the possibility that he is strong enough to recover from it, once he has time to rest and warm up. He might even have been trapped only for a short time, not the whole night. Hopefully the Game Warden has expertise to help with the appropriate care.

I remember well the time I found a cute hedgehog dead with his jaws locked to our electric poultry fence. This happened many years ago, but I still feel guilty .

 

[bruceha2000]

My daughter seems to have inherited some of my worst personality traits.

And maybe some good traits as well?

I wasted valuable seconds this morning taking pictures.

All work and no play makes Tonya a dull person!

Just got back from the rabies clinic. In and out in 15 minutes with 4 beagles and Maggie.

Nice when it takes longer to drive there and back than the time spent there.

Steering repaired and tractor is back in the garage!

WE all knew you could do it @aart!!!!!

It sounds like a freaky odd thing to happen, you didn't do anything wrong.

This. Don't beat yourself up Tonya. How many of your flock have been saved because the electronet was there?

 

[DobieLover]

Having survived this ordeal so far might hint to the possibility that he is strong enough to recover from it, once he has time to rest and warm up.

I don't think so but I guess we'll see. He's just laying under the comforter barely moving his ear.

 

[LaFleche]

I don't think so but I guess we'll see. He's just laying under the comforter barely moving his ear.

Might need massages to get the circulation going. I have seen people rescuing an elk from a frozen lake and they massaged it all the time until the circulation worked again.

 

[pennyJo1960]

May God be with him for your sake Dobi

 

[DobieLover]

We waited as long as we could hoping that the Game Warden would show up before we left. But I had to leave to run the dogs or I was going to run out of daylight.
I just got an alert from my front porch security camera. Looks like they shot him. I'm relieved that he's not suffering anymore.

 

[DobieLover]

We waited as long as we could hoping that the Game Warden would show up before we left. But I had to leave to run the dogs or I was going to run out of daylight.
I just got an alert from my front porch security camera. Looks like they shot him. I'm relieved that he's not suffering anymore.

He's not in that comforter.
He's in the woods behind the run, maybe 15-20 feet away. I wonder if anything will take him or if he's going to just rot back there and make my whole property reek. This day just keeps getting better and better.

 

[aart]

He's not in that comforter.

Huh, that's weird.
What is in the comforter?