wildlifeaid:Don’t ever handle deer by yourself – please call us or your local wildlife hospital for
wildlifeaid:Don’t ever handle deer by yourself – please call us or your local wildlife hospital for advice. All species of deer can be very dangerous and should only be handled by experts. Even if it doesn’t have antlers (which can cause serious harm), their powerful legs can inflict injuries and, in the case of Muntjac deer, their ‘’tusks” (downward-pointing, very long canine teeth) can inflict severe damage. These tusks can be hard to see and of course tusks are usually not usually associated with deer! There have been cases where even experienced handlers have been permanently disabled by such injuries. This poor Muntjac was brought in to us at the weekend. Its spinal cord was severed as well as having a shattered pelvis.In all cases involving deer we prefer to deal with them at the injury site, rather than putting them through the additional trauma of being transported, so please always call from the scene of an accident or injury. PLEASE… THINK WITH YOUR HEAD, NOT WITH YOUR HEART! Please share this with all your friends, and we can get the right message out there. 24 hour emergency helpline 09061 800 132 Calls charged at 50p per min (to help with funding) -- source link
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