there’s potential that there might be less natural food options out there for them.”
“This is an opportunity for people to kind of take notice of it being the fall season and not just deer, but other wildlife are really ramping up to make sure that they’re well-fed, well-established for winter season,” Lopez said. This is also the time of year when animals are out looking for food sources to prepare for winter, and the drought conditions have made that work extra hard. “These are wild animals and in that sense they’re constantly on alert for situations that may be averse to their survival,” she said.įall is mating season, so males are in competition and may exhibit more aggressive behaviour than other times of the year, Lopez said. It’s hard to say what brought on the deer’s aggressive behaviour, according to Lisa Lopez, WildSafeBC program manager, and any time a pet encounters a wild animal, that wild animal can behave in a way that is protective of space or a reaction to a perceived threat. READ MORE: Errington man thankful lightning-exploded tree did not ignite He said he is healing nicely after Oceanside Health Centre medical staff sutured up his puncture wound. Walker suffered a puncture wound in his leg, as well as some scrapes on his knees and shins. “It got me in the leg once with its antler and then when I realized I couldn’t get away, I was holding on to him and I just started yelling for help.”įortunately his neighbour arrived and she got in Walker’s car and nudged the buck with the vehicle until it eventually backed into a ditch, lost its footing and ran off. “It was about 20 minutes of back and forth with this deer and it was probably the scariest moment of my life,” Walker said. But now he was holding onto the 200-pound animal’s antlers and could not break away. The buck had pinned the lab down with his antlers and they were just going at each other,” Walker said.Īdrenaline kicked in and Walker grabbed the deer’s antlers and lifted them up so his dog, Pluto, could scurry to safety. “It was like a mass of an animal - it was my golden lab and a big buck. The MLA for Parksville Qualicum pulled into his driveway to see the strange and distressing sight on Sept. Adam Walker grabbed life by the horns last week - or rather by the antlers - when he arrived home to find his dog locked in a struggle with a large deer.
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