I got this shot of a conservation officer putting a young buck out of its misery this morning. I got multiple shots of the deer before the officer arrived. Its right hind leg was partially missing and the left hind leg was severely broken. No one knows what happened to it, but perhaps it was injured in a trap hunters set out for coyotes. This picture shows the officer's second, and fatal, shot. I was glad to see him show up as the poor deer could hardly walk.
.Mike VanderStelt
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3 comments:
correction -- poor Deer
It's pretty unfair to assume that the deer was wounded in a trapper's coyote set. I would say it is much more likely that it got clipped by a car, even as far away as Maple Island and made its way into the Filtration Ponds area. A foothold trap will not break a deers leg.
I'm not trying to be unfair in any way -- that's just what I was told, and one of the guy's out there that had been keeping an eye on it before the DNR got there, said it looked like (for a while) it had a "chain & some metal thing" wrapped around it's legs, and the DNR officer said he's seen it before and it was probably a (said the type) Coyote trap. Also, when I first spotted it, it was crossing the field south west bound directly across from the admin. entrance, turned west along the Pines & crossed the ditch & White road at approx. the place that it makes the S.E. curve towards the admin. building, then entered the dry cell areas. Also, if you have to question my motives, be so kind as to use a name.
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