Batting Cage Buck (pics added)

[doublerack]

Pics are from the DSM Register
DM police look for deer caught in netting
REGISTER STAFF WRITER

November 14, 2006


Des Moines police have called for animal control officers this morning to help corral a deer on Waterbury Circle.

The buck has batting cage netting wrapped around its antlers. Police say the buck was apparently going through the yard of a home in the west-side neighborhood early this morning when it became tangled in the netting.

It got free by ripping up the stakes holding the netting and now is wandering the neighborhood with netting and stakes hanging from its antlers.

Police were alerted about 7 a.m. and had tracked the deer, which had been walking up and down the street, to a back yard shortly before 8 a.m.

 

[doublerack]

I wonder if they darted this guy or if they just waiting till he was too tangled up or tired to fight?

 

[doublerack]

I wonder if they darted this guy or if they just waiting till he was too tangled up or tired to fight?
After police spent about about an hour trying to find the deer, it was released from the batting cage after a Des Moines animal control officer shot it with a tranquilizer dart.

 

[JMM1]

At least he got through it in one piece.

 

[1arrow]

Thanks to all for the rescue effort..

 

[doublerack]

I guess this buck died from all the stress and it's body didn't really handle the tranquilizer that well.

 

[gersdorf]

[ QUOTE ]
I guess this buck died from all the stress and it's body didn't really handle the tranquilizer that well.

[/ QUOTE ] Thats too bad he died. Looked like the making of a nice one.

 

[Jamison1]

quite a story! But yes, too bad he couldn't make it, it did look like it would have been a decent buck