A buck in Kamloops with netting and other materials tangled in its antlers.

Image Credit: SUBMITTED/ Sally Cornies

A Kamloops resident got a surprise when she looked out her window to see a buck with a large amount of thick netting tangled up in its antlers on Friday afternoon, Jan. 6.

Sally Cornies has enjoyed watching deer and other wildlife around her home in Lower Sahali for years.

“I have deer in my yard all the time eating and sleeping,” she said. “This buck has been around the neighbourhood for a while. I looked out and saw him tangled up and it was so sad.”

Cornies said she didn’t know all of what was wrapped in the buck’s antlers but could see garden netting was part of it.

She called the Conservation Officer Service to report it.

“It looked like that green netting people have in their gardens for vines to grow on,” she said. “And there was some kind of red or white stuff. The officer looked at the photo and thought it was the material people use to wrap around shrubs in the winter.”

Cornies said the officer suggested leaving the buck alone because it wasn’t impaired and was still mobile. The next day when she saw the buck, it had managed to get most of it off.

“The officer said the good news is the bucks will be losing their antlers soon so the rest will drop off,” she said.

A buck tangled up in a volleyball net in October wasn’t so lucky.

A Conservation Officer had to dart the deer in order to remove the net that was preventing it from moving properly.

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“It seems we have more deer in our towns and they find themselves getting into predicaments like this,” said Conservation Officer Mike Sanderson in a previous interview with iNFOnews. “Things like garden netting and soccer nets are a problem, as well as Christmas lights.Typically more of these types of things are happening this time of year as the deer are getting closer to rut season and brushing their antlers on things, not paying as much attention.”

Sanderson said the Conservation Officer Service asks people to be mindful of deer and other wildlife and remove nets that are not in use, along with other such things they may get tangled in.

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