...or not? One of those agonizing 'should I have done something about it?' moments. A commonplace enough event on this morning's spin: pootling along a quiet and lonely country lane near Horsham, young male deer on the road, as I approach it dashes off through a gap in the hedge.
Only it didn't seem to quite make it, got tangled in a fence and started struggling. I didn't intervene, can't imagine I would have done any good and would quite possibly have got hurt myself (those antlers looked sharp!). And as for summoning the RSPCA - well the deer would either be gone - or dead - by the time they showed up.
So I left it. Hope it extricated itself somehow.
Only it didn't seem to quite make it, got tangled in a fence and started struggling. I didn't intervene, can't imagine I would have done any good and would quite possibly have got hurt myself (those antlers looked sharp!). And as for summoning the RSPCA - well the deer would either be gone - or dead - by the time they showed up.
So I left it. Hope it extricated itself somehow.