{"id":227840,"date":"2025-10-27T08:24:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T08:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/227840\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T08:24:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T08:24:09","slug":"aggressive-and-unpredictable-warning-issued-as-wild-animal-takes-up-residence-in-limerick-village","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/227840\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Aggressive and unpredictable&#8217;: Warning issued as wild animal takes up residence in Limerick village"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IT&#8217;S NOT just town and city dwellers who want to escape the hustle and bustle by setting up home in the peaceful, and less \u201cdeer\u201d, County <a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/limerickleader.ie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Limerick<\/a> countryside.<\/p>\n<p>A Sika stag has taken up residence in the picturesque village of Loughill on the banks of the Shannon Estuary, according to the Irish Deer Society.<\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/news\/farming\/1925349\/major-limerick-garda-led-farm-event-on-security-safety-and-rural-isolation-at-mart.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Major Limerick garda-led farm event on security, safety and rural isolation at mart<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A post on their Facebook page said the three to four-year-old stag has chosen the river walk to set up home.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have been asked to make the public aware of him, particularly, this time of year during the seasonal rut as he may become aggressive and unpredictable,\u201d reads the post.<\/p>\n<p>The Irish Deer Society asked walkers to \u201cplease keep all dogs on the leash and do not attempt to approach to feed or take photographs\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The Irish Deer Society is devoted to \u201cimproving the welfare of wild deer in Ireland through conservation and knowledge of all our species and expertise of our members\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Sika deer most probably originated from the Japanese Islands in north eastern Asia but this stag seems quite at home in west Limerick.<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"IT&#8217;S NOT just town and city dwellers who want to escape the hustle and bustle by setting up&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227841,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[97015,90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-227840","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-county-limerick","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom","13":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}