Operation in Graz

Deer stuck in garden gate – rescued by hunter

You could see the little deer's desperate situation.(Bild: Landesjägerschaft)

A different kind of operation for a hunter in the Styrian capital: the supervising hunter had to be called out in Andritz to free a deer from a garden gate.

On Monday, observant residents recognized the somewhat tricky situation that a deer had got itself into. The wild animal apparently wanted to slip through a garden gate in the Andritz district of Graz, but got stuck and ended up trapped. The neighbors immediately informed the responsible supervising hunter Matthias Kohlbacher. He was quickly on the scene and expertly freed the animal from its predicament. He discovered that it was a young animal that had only been born this spring.

Incidents often end in martyrdom for animals 
"Fences, gates, carelessly left wires or strings and, very often in summer, swimming pools are very dangerous for wild animals and often end in real ordeals for the animals concerned. Fortunately, everything worked out very well in the current case," says State Hunting Master Franz Mayr-Melnhof-Saurau. "My special thanks go to the attentive neighbors as well as our hunters, who are always the right people to talk to when it comes to wild animals."