\n The dazed muntjac left behind a trail of destruction after crashing through the study window and a greenhouse at the home of Daphne Van Loenen in Malvern.\n<\/p>\n
\n Fortunately, the wild animal appeared unharmed after its escapade on Sunday (May 31).\n<\/p>\n
\n The homeowner from Malvern Link said: ” I walked down my garden and saw something in the bushes.\n<\/p>\n
\n “I quickly realised it was a muntjac.\n<\/p>\n
\n “My garden is enclosed, so it must have jumped from one of my neighbours’ gardens, which is slightly higher than mine.\n<\/p>\n
\n “It saw me and panicked. It was running around and could not get out. I went back inside. It couldn’t get out, and then I heard a crash.\n<\/p>\n
\n “At first, I thought it had gone into the fence, but when I came back inside, my dog was barking. It had leapt through my study room window and onto my desk, and left droppings on the carpet.\n<\/p>\n
\n ‘It was pretty exhausting’ said the 82-year-old (Image: Daphne Van Loenen)\n<\/p>\n
\n “It dashed back out, but I could not find it, so I thought it had jumped back over.\n<\/p>\n
\n “So I let the dog out, and then it shot out and went through the greenhouse.\n<\/p>\n
\n “My dog chased it, but fortunately, it did not catch the muntjac.\n<\/p>\n
\n “The poor animal, it was possibly hurt.”\n<\/p>\n
Muntjacs in the UK<\/p>\n
\n Muntjacs are commonly seen across the UK, especially in the South West, after arriving in the 20th century.\n<\/p>\n
\n The 82-year-old added: “My study is full of my granddaughter’s boxes, so to get under the desk and clear the mess was quite the ordeal. It was pretty exhausting.\n<\/p>\n
\n “It was quite dramatic for a Sunday afternoon in Malvern.\n<\/p>\n
\n “It was such a bizarre occurrence. I had seen one before in the woods, but not in the centre of Malvern Link. They are very shy animals.\n<\/p>\n
\n “My daughters were horrified when I told them I had been under my desk dealing with it.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The dazed muntjac left behind a trail of destruction after crashing through the study window and a greenhouse…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":621141,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-621140","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\/621140","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=621140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/621141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}