SAN ANSELMO, CA — Marin Humane Animal Services is reminding people to hang holiday lights in a way that is safe for wildlife after the antlers of a buck in San Anselmo became tangled in holiday lights recently.
“What likely happened is that the lights were draped loosely over a bush or hanging very low and the buck ran through them, getting his antlers tangled up,” Marin Humane Animal Services Director Cindy Machado said in a news release Monday.
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While I feel bad for poor Buck there, part of me wants to plug him in!
Looks like a younger buck with about 4-6 points…and looks even more like he had a fight trying to untangle them after taking out of the attic…from last year.
‘Darn it, how DO they get so tangled!!!?’
Ghost, I have to admit my first thought was he’d look cool lit up.
The most humiliating part of it was when all of the other deer laughed and called him names. Not only that, they wouldn’t let him join in any of their games.
…But then the fog rolled in.
Never put up your X-mas lights before the rut.
I was going to say he was trying to be Rudolph, but Vietvet beat me to it.
Rudolf you have competition.
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I don’t know, I’ll take it further, he appears to be wearing a crown of thorns. Imagine being on a hike and coming upon this creature in the woods!
Horatio Prim, good one! I was imagining the hiker who stumbled on the antlers after the buck shed them! “Whoa, how did THAT happen?”
Also, can you imagine the poor buck when the first antler falls, but hangs around banging on his head whenever he moves! Poor thing has to wait for the other antler to shed before he can face his friends!
Aw poor thing. 😀
The article says you should put your decorations up higher, but all that’s gonna do is invite squirrels to remove the lightbulbs. lol. Squirrels are fun, but man, are they lil bastids.
Later on I bet he told his fellow bucks, “man I went to a party last night and did I get lit!”
Should’a used a conditioner to untangle all the snarls.
Yes, The other deer laughed and called him names:
The buck stops here.
Survival of the fittest.
It was a fun night for Buck…until he sobered up.
We have some cement ones around here that have slugs in them.
Lights might save them.
See this every year – we have a golf course nearby and so many deer it’s ridiculous – of course people have to put their lights in the same bushes the deer browse on.