The RSPCA is urging horse owners and farmers to check their electric fencing after being called twice in a week to deal with reports of deer trapped in the fencing. In both cases the deer were freed and released unhurt.
Lee Hopgood, an RSPCA Cheif inspector was called to a report of a fallow deer caught buy its’ antlers in fencing at Stourport-on-Severn, on 9 September and to another incident in Halesowen on 12 September.
The British Horse Society have backed the RSPCA telling horse owners that “It’s common sense really, regardless of whether it is a deer stuck in your fencing or your horse, you should be checking it regularly.”
It makes sense, so we would ask all our visitors who keep horses or who are intending to buy a horse, please check your fencing whenever you can. Our horses may well be our main priority but there is no need for the deer to suffer as a result.