Helping a little friend 🦌

66Mustang

A few weeks ago while driving I saw this standing in the road. Normally they are timid and flee as soon as they sense anything.

I think she’d been hit, she stumbled about, and kept trying to hop up the little bank on the right but falling back down … it was pitiful by which I mean the older sense of the word. Then she just curled up like in the picture.. I imagine she was petrified 🙁

It’s a main road and quite fast, people were coming up then having to brake or go round, as she wasn’t too visible. I reversed and parked my car where it is in the pic so people would see the car and move…I probably should have parked in front of her but wanted to keep an eye on her while staying at the wheel because I was stopped in a dodgy place

We called our vet who said they're not a mobile vet and we shouldn't try to move the deer so call the police. Within 30 secs a copper appeared, we joked that was quick service 😆 but he was just a traffic cop wondering why we were parked on the yellow lines. He was really nice, I was a bit worried about wasting their time but it was fine and if nothing else it’s an obstruction that was making people swerve and stuff so probably would have caused a crash

Eventually the little deer found the strength to hop off into the trees and all was good 👍

Kiki23

https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/137052/helping-a-little-friend

Thank you for being a caring person

Ranald

I saw a Roe deer last night, who had been unlucky with a train. It's amazing they get on the line, as there is a newly installed 6 foot fence.

My Gus can be relied upon to chase them back towards the station, where they can escape into the trees (The fence is between them, i don't let him harm them).

Albus_Scope

Oh bless her cotton socks, poor thing.

Thanks for staying with her @66Mustang I know it must've been terrifying for the poor sausage.

66Mustang

@Kiki23 thanks for the lovely comment

@Ranald oooh I assume Gus is a dog? Which breed? Our Border Collie once spotted a deer when he was off the lead in the countryside, and he ran after it till he was out of sight and we thought we might have lost him… after a few mins he came back literally with his tail between his legs! 😆 My brother was with us who to put it politely has an old fashioned attitude to training… I was conscious that he might've thought he was being told off for coming back but in fairness he hasn't done it since

@Albus_Scope thanks ☺️ yes I did feel sorry, I think it didn't help as to me she resembled Jenson trembling when there's fireworks

Ranald

https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1052269#Comment_1052269

Staffordshire Bull Terrier, Mustang. He is such a people dog, but can't mix with other dogs, sadly.

My paternal grandfather had a Border Collie, very intelligent, as i'm sure you know.

WelshBlue

Fair play to you mate, sadly I don't think many would have

Only last week I drove behind 2 lambs that had escaped. Twisty road, loads of blind corners … me crawling with hazards on until they got to an open space

5 people overtook beeping as they went, despite being able to see the lambs. No patience or didn't give a damn to the lambs or any on coming cars

2 minutes later I was behind them all … 3 minutes later I was passing them all 😂 Wife slapping my hand off the horn

JessieJ

Well done, @66Mustang, so good that you stayed on guard & the poor mite eventually moved to somewhere safer.

66Mustang

@Ranald   Lovely happy looking dog 🙂 what a good boy for the camera, I hope he got a treat afterwards

@Carpy   I have to admit when I was a non-dog person I found bull-type dogs intimating. It’s only when we got a dog ourselves and I started interacting with other dogs, I learnt they have a diversity like humans and first impressions are misleading

@WelshBlue   they sound like what I call “Mr./Mrs. Constant” i.e. they keep a constant speed… 45mph on the main road when they could do 60, and 45mph through the village when they should be doing 30 🙄

@JessieJ   thanks 😊

WelshBlue

@WelshBlue   they sound like what I call “Mr./Mrs. Constant” i.e. they keep a constant speed… 45mph on the main road when they could do 60, and 45mph through the village when they should be doing 30 🙄

Hehe I like that Mr/Mrs Constant … seen a lot of them.

Whether it's North/ South/ East or West our nearest dual carraigeway is 50 miles away so seen too many. Gets to the stage being stuck behind them, you know when they're going to brake … before they do 😃

We've got great driving roads around here and I'll never forget being stuck behind someone for about 10 miles - they had perfect racing lines in and out of corners. Textbook stuff. Impressive

… except they were doing 35 in a 60. And every lil' and big straight … oncoming traffic. I needed a dark room and valium after that journey 😂

All good fun

@Ranald … you can see the adoration and love in his eyes

66Mustang

@WelshBlue you've probably experienced this as sounds like your familiar with little roads… but a couple of days ago I stopped to let a fire engine turn in front of me, but because the road was only just wide enough for opposing traffic to pass I found myself held up by a fire engine with the lights and sirens going 😂

I tried to let them get ahead so as not to look like a boy racer twit trying to show off, but it honestly got to the point where he was creeping round corners incase of meeting someone and I'd have had to stop, and couldn't really… so I ended up turning off and finding a different way home