Erie residents are raising concerns after spotting a deer trapped in an enclosed property in the City of Erie for months.
We visited the property ourselves on Monday. The deer was difficult to find but appeared to be stuck inside the fencing.
This is a property located in the City of Erie between Raspberry and Cascade streets near West 16th Street.
It’s fenced completely in and according to the city, it’s owned by a Massachusetts-based company called ‘Babcock Borsig Power Incorporated’ that closed their Erie location.
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Trapped inside of the property is this deer, pictured below, that has been noticed by Erie resident Rick Ross and his wife for more than three months.
Ross described it as a ‘small, skinny’ doe that doesn’t look like it’s receiving any food except for the brush on the property.
Ross says he’s called the Pennsylvania Game Commission and they don’t plan on helping the deer.
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“They said, ‘ Is it mobile?’ I said yeah, it’s mobile. It’s walking around, but really it’s starving to death, so they won’t do anything,” he explained. “I just hope somebody just at least opens the gate and lets the poor thing out and let it see if it can find its way down to the peninsula or some wooded area where he can find shelter at least.”
We called the PA Game Commission to confirm this information or see if they have received any other complaints, but they have not yet gotten back to us.
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