\n Kirklees Valley Wildlife Rescue were called out earlier this month to tend to a deer that had found himself caught up in part of an electric fence on the nature reserve.\n<\/p>\n
\n Fortunately, with the swift help of Kylie Chorlton, site manager of Kirklees Valley Wildlife Rescue, and her colleague, the male deer was saved and released without any injuries\n<\/p>\n
\n Shocking footage shows the deer in distress tangled in the electric fencing before he was released safely.\n<\/p>\n
\n The deer stuck in the electric fence (Image: Kirklees Valley Wildlife Rescue)\n<\/p>\n
\n Kylie said she was pleased to have a successful deer release, but that recently the rescue unfortunately encountered a deer trapped in barbed wire fencing that could not be saved.\n<\/p>\n
\n Kylie Chorlton, site manager at Kirklees Valley Wildlife Rescue (Image: Kylie Chorlton)\n<\/p>\n
\n The 37-year-old said the best thing the public can do to help is to ensure their fences are tight and to be aware that wildlife is out earlier now that the clocks have changed.\n<\/p>\n
\n Kylie said: \u201cUnfortunately, the deer had got caught in the electric fencing, so we attended and restrained the deer as quickly as possible and obviously as safely as possible.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cWe kept the deer calm and released it as fast as we could. It\u2019s obviously really good to have a successful deer release.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cIt\u2019s paramount that we do it as fast as possible.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cHe was absolutely panicking, quite distressed.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cFencing is obviously quite a tricky one for deer and quite common. We are lucky in this instance that this one was okay.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cIt is important with electric fencing or any kind of fencing that it\u2019s tight because when it is loose there\u2019s more of a chance of getting caught in it.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n She said other animals, such as foxes, badgers, and hedgehogs, are also often caught in fencing.\n<\/p>\n
\n Kylie said: \u201cIf they [the public] see an animal like this in distress, call up local wildlife rescue as soon as possible, don\u2019t try to approach the animal.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cIf they\u2019ve got any video footage, send that across as well.\n<\/p>\n
\n The deer being safely released (Image: Kirklees Valley Wildlife Rescue)\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cEspecially when it comes to larger mammals, it\u2019s not ideal for the public to try and release that animal for their safety and for the animal\u2019s safety at the same time.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cMaintain any sort of fencing well. That will reduce the risk of any fencing injury to almost none if the fence is maintained.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cEspecially at this time of year, just making sure that they are aware because the clocks have gone back animals are out earlier because it\u2019s dark.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cKeep your speed low, make sure you\u2019re doing all your observations.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kirklees Valley Wildlife Rescue were called out earlier this month to tend to a deer that had found…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269969,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-269968","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\/269968","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=269968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}