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EUGENE, Ore. – A deer got its antlers caught in Christmas lights on Monday.
“It was seen yesterday morning dragging these lights behind it,” wildlife biologist Brian Wolfer with theOregon Department of Fish and Wildlife said Tuesday, “and originally the bundle of lights were pretty loose but as the morning wore off it started tightening up around the deer’s neck.”
“If the lights had just been wrapped around the antlers, it wouldn’t have been a big deal because the bucks will shed their antlers in late winter so it would have lost the lights at that point,” Wolfer said, “but because it was wrapped around the deer’s neck it had the ability to restrict air flow or restrict the ability to eat or swallow.”
Biologists tranquilized the deer so they could untangle the strand of lights from its antlers and throat.
Hunt Well,
Brandon C. Hammonds
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Everything Whitetails 
Crazy stuff!
Comment by Ben December 5, 2012 @ 2:32 pm