A deer with a tire strapped to its neck has escaped its heavy load for a long time, escaping capture, according to Colorado Parks and Wildlife officials. The deer was extremely difficult to catch, and for two years he escaped from the rangers who tried to help him. But after it was finally spotted near County Road 126, wildlife officers Dawson Swanson and Scott Murdoch were able to “calm” the deer and remove the tire.
Swanson said in a statement, “I am grateful to be able to work in a community that values our state’s wildlife resource.
The deer weighed 272 kilograms and had an impressive antler. This made it difficult to remove the tire. The rangers decided to remove the horns to dislodge the tire.
“Removing it was very difficult,” said Murdoch, and added: “It certainly wasn’t easy, we couldn’t cut the steel on the bead of the tire, so we had to move it properly to remove it. Fortunately, there was still some room to move around in the deer’s neck.”
Fortunately, there is no need to worry about deer; the antlers will grow back next year for the mating season, and the absence of antlers will reduce the chances of the deer being killed. At only four and a half years old, the deer certainly deserves a period of reduced load.
For the past few years, deer have been on the move, disappearing and reappearing for long periods of winter, and avoiding human presence. Along with the deer’s tendency to travel in herds, this made them incredibly difficult to catch.
“The tire was full of wet pine needles and dirt. So pine needles, dirt and other debris basically filled the entire bottom half of the tire. There was probably a 4.5-pound pile in the tire,” Murdoch explains, giving us an understanding of the deer’s torment.
Still, the neck was in relatively good shape compared to two years of friction. “He had a bit of hair fall out, there was a small open wound maybe the size of a coin, but other than that he looked really good. I was quite surprised to see how good he actually looked,” Murdoch told the Guardian.
The strange thing is that it is still unknown how this tire got on the deer’s neck. . .
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