Buck with Arrow in Neck

1db2 · Nov 10, 2018

I have a buck with an arrow in it's neck I want to remove or cut short. The buck knows me and has had the arrow in it's neck for about a week. A neighbor posted it on Facebook 5 days ago and now he's at my house. He's camped under my deck. It's not hunting season and probably got shot by some moron. I suspect a teenage moron. I can't get Fish and Wildlife or any agency in California to help. Does anyone know of any oral tranquilizer that would work?

oddbird · Nov 10, 2018

not sure if it would help...

but I was looking into this today and someone had mentioned that sullivan "sheep calm" could be used for deer.

1db2 · Nov 10, 2018

Thank you. I found the pellets and that would calm him down. He's a large buck and I need to knock him out. Calming him I might still get the horns. I can get close enough to pet a doe but the bucks won't let me get within 15 feet.

I have some Percocet from my recent blood clot but don't know how that would effect him so I'm reluctant to try that.

weber195 · Nov 10, 2018

...if he eats too much, you could kill him, he doesn't eat enough and he could kill you...hope we don't read about you in the news...and people drugs don't work on animals

1db2 · Nov 11, 2018

Yes, I called a local big animal traveling vet and she said the same thing...that people drugs affect animals differently. She was prohibited from working on wildlife and could not help me. I mentioned the percocet to try and get her to offer some information one way or other but she said she had no experience with deer. I was willing to pay someone to help the buck after getting the hand from California government resources. No one in California will help me. I am so unimpressed and so frustrated. I don't know where else to try and find help. My property is zoned agricultural. If you guys farm deer don't you have traveling vets that work on them? What makes your deer farm animals and not wildlife?

weber195 · Nov 11, 2018

they are in a fence and private property, a wild deer is the sates' property and responsibility

FreeTown WTs · Nov 11, 2018

Is that a mule deer

1db2 · Nov 11, 2018

Buck with Arrow in Neck

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