\n You might not expect to bump into a little deer.\n<\/p>\n
\n But a muntjac named Lucy caused a stir when she unexpectedly entered the busy Rampant Horse Street M&S and got stuck behind the glass barrier of a ground-floor escalator.\n<\/p>\n
\n Luckily quick-thinking staff managed to calm her down and closed off the area to shocked shoppers.\n<\/p>\n
\n The store was closed to ease the rescue (Image: Hillside Animal Sanctuary)\n<\/p>\n
\n A spokesman for M&S thanked Ian Haywood from Hillside Animal Sanctuary for coming out to the city centre store on Tuesday afternoon to help rescue the frightened deer.\n<\/p>\n
\n He said: “We’re grateful to our Norwich store colleagues for their swift response when an unexpected visitor entered the store.\n<\/p>\n
\n “The team moved quickly to keep the muntjac deer calm, and with the help of Hillside Animal Sanctuary, it was safely rescued.”\n<\/p>\n
\n Wendy Valentine, founder of Hillside Animal Sanctuary, said: “This call was certainly one to remember when M&S contacted us to report that a muntjac deer had become trapped in the casing of a ground-floor escalator.\n<\/p>\n
\n “When Ian arrived, he found that M&S staff had done everything possible to keep the little deer as calm and quiet as possible, including shutting the store until help arrived.\n<\/p>\n
\n Lucy the deer is now recovering (Image: Hillside Animal Sanctuary)\n<\/p>\n
\n “He was then able to safely free her from the glass barrier without causing further distress.”\n<\/p>\n
\n The muntjac suffered only minor injuries and is now recovering at one of the sanctuary\u2019s sites.\n<\/p>\n
\n Kevin Murphy from Norfolk Wildlife Rescue revealed it is surprising to see large mammals in the city centre.\n<\/p>\n
\n He added that muntjacs usually prefer foraging in grass areas in Norwich around churches and near the castle rather than browsing the shelves of an upmarket food hall.\n<\/p>\n
\n But it is likely she ended up in shop after getting \u201cspooked\u201d when moving between wilder pockets of land.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You might not expect to bump into a little deer. But a muntjac named Lucy caused a stir…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":585598,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-585597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585597","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=585597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/585598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}