{"id":358040,"date":"2026-01-08T01:01:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T01:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/358040\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T01:01:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T01:01:09","slug":"injured-deer-assisted-during-suffolk-and-norfolk-call-outs-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/358040\/","title":{"rendered":"Injured deer assisted during Suffolk and Norfolk call outs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The Marine and Wildlife Rescue charity was called out twice in quick succession on Tuesday, January 6 following reports that a Muntjac deer was trapped in Suffolk and a Chinese water deer was injured near the roadside in Norfolk.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greatyarmouthmercury.co.uk\/news\/25738178.stranded-seal-spotted-postman-delivering-gorleston\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">animal rescue charity<\/a> sent a team of volunteers to assess the situations during call-outs in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lowestoftjournal.co.uk\/local-news\/lowestoft-news\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Lowestoft<\/a> and near Loddon.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The trapped Muntjac deer required assistance in Lowestoft, while the Chinese water deer was assessed near Loddon.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>An injured deer that was spotted collapsed near the roadside in Norfolk was assessed by a wildlife rescue charity. Image: Marine and Wildlife Rescue (Image: Marine and Wildlife Rescue)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A post on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/marineandwildliferescue?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Marine and Wildlife Rescue Facebook page<\/a> said: &#8220;The trapped deer in Lowestoft had sustained a foot injury and was sheltered within a storage container.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;We freed that deer and in fact didn&#8217;t manage to handle it as it charged out of the confined space while we attempted to contain it.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;The deer was in good shape otherwise.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  On Tuesday evening the charity responded to the Chinese water deer after it was spotted collapsed at the roadside on the A146 near Loddon.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  They said: &#8220;After a short assessment, the deer, that had a couple of grazes, was able to stand and made for the shelter of a hedge in the immediate area away from the main road.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;This was a rather fortunate and pragmatic end to what could have been a very different outcome for both of the deer.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Deer tend to be highly stressed and it was quite a relief that both of these that we attended worked out positive.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  To support the charity or to find out more on its work visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marineandwildliferescue.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">\/www.marineandwildliferescue.org.uk.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Marine and Wildlife Rescue charity was called out twice in quick succession on Tuesday, January 6 following&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357353,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-358040","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\/358040","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=358040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}