\n The Chinese water deer was found about four metres down in a partially water-filled hole on a farm in Chatteris on Wednesday, October 7.\n<\/p>\n
\n The rescue was carried out by the RSPCA with assistance from Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue Service.\n<\/p>\n
\n John Woods, animal rescue officer at the RSPCA, said: “This poor deer couldn\u2019t climb out of the hole and was completely stuck.\n<\/p>\n
\n “The Chatteris and Dogsthorpe crew kindly attended and helped use their ladders to get into the reservoir and get the deer out.\n<\/p>\n
\n “The deer was active and well with no injuries and soon made a swift exit as soon as they had been freed.\n<\/p>\n
\n “Not even a nod, a wink or a polite thank you after all that effort.\n<\/p>\n
\n “Seriously though, it\u2019s the highlight of our job being able to save and release animals back into the wild like this.\n<\/p>\n
\n “I\u2019d like to say a massive thank you to Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue Service for coming to the rescue and helping get the job done.\n<\/p>\n
\n “It\u2019s a great reminder of what we can achieve together for animal welfare.”\n<\/p>\n
\n Chinese water deer are native to China and Korea and are only found in a small part of the UK.\n<\/p>\n
\n They are most commonly seen in Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Norfolk, having originally escaped from zoos in the 18 and 1900s.\n<\/p>\n
\n The deer do not have antlers but are instead recognised by their prominent tusks.\n<\/p>\n
\n They favour habitats such as reed beds, river shores, woodlands and fields, making the wet fenlands of Cambridgeshire and Norfolk an ideal environment.\n<\/p>\n
\n For expert advice on helping deer, visit the RSPCA\u2019s website.\n<\/p>\n
\n If you want to help the RSPCA continue to rescue animals in need, visit rspca.org.uk\/give.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Chinese water deer was found about four metres down in a partially water-filled hole on a farm…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":817862,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-817861","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\/817861","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=817861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/817862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=817861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=817861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=817861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}