{"id":71091,"date":"2016-11-12T02:06:15","date_gmt":"2016-11-12T09:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/protect-wildlife-by-storing-yard-toys-equipment\/"},"modified":"2016-11-12T09:06:15","modified_gmt":"2016-11-12T09:06:15","slug":"protect-wildlife-by-storing-yard-toys-equipment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/protect-wildlife-by-storing-yard-toys-equipment\/","title":{"rendered":"Protect wildlife by storing yard toys, equipment"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=58da7647-a1af-4cea-af7b-388fc01346f7&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" alt=\"This picture was taken several years ago in the Durango area. A hammock or volleyball net had become tangled in a deer\u2019s antlers.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">This picture was taken several years ago in the Durango area. A hammock or volleyball net had become tangled in a deer\u2019s antlers.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy photo<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Recently in Durango, a young buck deer became tangled in a hammock which broke off an antler and part of its skull. A resident reported seeing the deer, but wildlife officers were not able to find the animal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we looked at the antler we knew the deer had sustained a very serious injury,\u201d said Matt Thorpe, area wildlife manager in Durango.<\/p>\n<p>At this time of year buck deer are especially active because the mating season is approaching. It\u2019s common for deer to get tangled in hammocks, volleyball nets, swing sets, tire swings, clothes lines, yard decorations, garden fencing, tomato cages, buckets, etc. Those items should be stored for the winter or covered and secured.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDeer can end up with almost anything on their antlers,\u201d Thorpe said. \u201cWe\u2019ve even had deer with bicycles on their antlers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Every year holiday lights also end up as decorations on the heads of deer. Lights should be attached tightly to a building, to a post or fence and not just draped over trees or shrubs. Hang lights more than six feet above the ground to prevent an unexpected disappearance of those expensive decorations.<\/p>\n<p>If you see an animal tangled in a net or decorations, please call the near CPW office or local law enforcement. Do not approach the animal or attempt to remove items. An animal does not understand that you are trying to help it and can be very dangerous in that type of circumstance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>picture was taken several years ago in the Durango area. A hammock or volleyball net had become tangled in a deer\u2019s antlers.Courtesy photo Recently in Durango, a young buck deer became tangled in a hammock which broke off an antler and part of its skull. A resident reported seeing the deer, but wildlife officers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":71092,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21,83],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-71091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez","tag-mancos"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71091","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=71091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71091"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=71091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}