{"id":49084,"date":"2021-01-18T17:47:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T00:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wildlife-officials-seek-person-who-illegally-shot-deer-through-the-nose\/"},"modified":"2021-01-19T00:47:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-19T00:47:00","slug":"wildlife-officials-seek-person-who-illegally-shot-deer-through-the-nose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wildlife-officials-seek-person-who-illegally-shot-deer-through-the-nose\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildlife officials seek person who illegally shot deer through the nose"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=5fdbada2-500d-4352-ab1c-21f6276f07ab&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" alt=\"A deer was found with an arrow through its nose last week in north Durango and required rescue.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">A deer was found with an arrow through its nose last week in north Durango and required rescue.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy of Colorado Parks and Wildlife<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>A deer found with an arrow through its nose in Durango required rescue after it was illegally shot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis has nothing to do with hunting,\u201d said Colorado Parks and Wildlife spokesman Joe Lewandowski. \u201cThis was someone being stupid.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Residents spotted the injured deer last week in the area of Crestview Drive and West Third Avenue in north Durango and called CPW to report it. A wildlife manager was able to tranquilize the deer with a dart, Lewandowski said.<\/p>\n<p>The arrow went through the deer\u2019s nasal cavity, but fortunately, it did not break any bones or appear life-threatening, Lewandowski said.<\/p>\n<p>After removing the arrow, the deer was given a drug to wake up, and it appeared alert.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo one has seen it since,\u201d Lewandowski said. \u201cHopefully, the deer makes it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The wound appeared fresh and was not infected (the last archery season for deer was in September). The arrow was not a type an archery hunter would use. Instead, it was one typically purchased at Walmart, Lewandowski said.<\/p>\n<p>Lewandowski said it is safe to say this was not done by a hunter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis looks like someone was not being very smart,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Hunting and shooting are illegal within Durango city limits, even during established hunting seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Lewandowski said if deer are becoming a problem on private property they can be chased away or CPW can be called for advice.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information about the injured deer is asked to contact CPW\u2019s Durango office at 247-0855 or Operation Game Thief at (877) 265-6648.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:jromeo@durangoherald.com\">jromeo@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018This has nothing to do with hunting; this was someone being stupid\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49085,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[168,28,29,603],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-49084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-crime","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter","tag-wildlife"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49084"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=49084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}