Rare white albino deer rescued from rope swing

This very rare white albino deer had to be rescued when it got entangled in a swing in woodland.

Volunteer rescuers Trevor Weeks and Kathy Martyn from East Sussex Wildlife rescue and Ambulance service and Tony Neads from Polegate found the male fallow deer with its antlers caught.



They managed to get a special net round the deer to help secure the animal. With the deer secure on the ground, Trevor held the antlers whilst Tony and Kathy started cutting the antlers free from the rope.

"You have a 30 minute window once you have caught the deer to cut it free from these situation or they become too stressed and can die" said Trevor, Rescue Co-ordinator for WRAS.



"It was certainly a challenging environment to work in and for once I was actually quite worried about how we were going to catch and secure the deer safely without injury to ourselves.

"On one side there was a sheer drop of about 20ft into a stream and barbed wire on the ground. Luckily the deer had already wrapped the rope round a couple of trees restricting the deers ability to move about but you still need to be very careful of the antlers and legs flying about."