A young fallow deer has been pictured sporting a bright pink and blue plaster-cast after being caught in barbed-wire fencing.
The one-year-old buck was found with his hoof caught in a barbed wire fence near Turville, a small Buckinghamshire village near to where The Vicar Of Dibley was filmed.
Staff at St Tiggywinkles, an animal rescue centre in Haddenham, warned that it's still 'touch and go' as to whether the deer could lose its foot - and that if he does the whole leg must be amputated.
The charity warns that the type of common type fencing in which he was found trapped is so dangerous that they see two or three deer a week suffering 'horrifying' injuries after getting stuck.
It is particularly dangerous to young deer, which have particular difficulty clearing the height of the fences in one clean leap.
Les Stocker, founder and manager of St Tiggywinkles, told MailOnline the animal was found about a fortnight ago by a dog walker out in a remote part of the Buckinghamshire countryside.
The dog walker contacted the charity who sent a rescue team to give first aid treatment before bringing the deer back to the centre to recuperated.
'We've got a bag of stuff for cutting deer out of fences,' Mr Stocker said. 'We ask people not to cut it out themselves whatever they do because if you cut it out it runs off and its leg goes putrid.
'Once we've got hold of it and it goes on a drip then it comes back here and we try to sort it out. This one had bashed its antlers quite badly by thrashing about after getting trapped.'
source: dailymail
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