{"id":234187,"date":"2025-10-30T15:17:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T15:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/234187\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T15:17:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T15:17:07","slug":"deer-rescued-in-emsworth-after-antlers-tangled-in-electric-fence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/234187\/","title":{"rendered":"Deer rescued in Emsworth after antlers tangled in electric fence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A deer found tangled in electric fencing with a six-foot (1.8m) post dragging from its antlers has been rescued and released.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The fallow buck was discovered trapped in the fencing on Copse Lane, Emsworth on 23 October by a passer-by who called the RSPCA.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rescue officer at the charity Marie Stevens said she found the &#8220;poor buck very distressed&#8221; entangled in the wires with &#8220;the heavy pole attached which must have been putting pressure on his head.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The deer was sedated by a local vet before the tangled mass of fence was quickly cut away to release its antlers.  Ms Stevens said after a few hours recovering in shrubland &#8220;it was a joy to watch him rejoin his herd&#8221;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A deer found tangled in electric fencing with a six-foot (1.8m) post dragging from its antlers has been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234188,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-234187","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-unitedkingdom","12":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234187","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=234187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}