Deer roams Jamaica Plain until it winds up in a backyard, where it is captured
UPDATE: Deer found healthy enough to be released, which it was, in a location that was not the Arboretum or Franklin Park, at the direction of state Environmental Police.
A young deer's explorations of Jamaica Plain came to an end this evening in a backyard on Jess Street, a dead end behind the Brewery complex where two Boston Animal Control workers captured it, a couple hours after firefighters had spotted it, possibly injured, on Boylston Street at Amory.
Animal Control Director Amanda Kennedy said the deer, a young male, will observed for a while. If it's well enough, it will be released in a location better suited for deer. But if the injury is too serious, it might have to be euthanized, she said.
Around 5:30 p.m., the deer, which had been spotted around JP for the past few days, ran through a Brewery parking lot before jumping through a fence and down onto Jess, where it ran across the street and jumped across two low fences to get into the yard.
Residents said this was the first deer they'd ever seen on the street; one did say a wild turkey once chased her daughter down the street.
In the yard, it mostly rested, supervised by an E-13 bicycle cop, a plucky reporter and his intrepid daughter, some residents and a couple of cats, one of which found the sight most curious:
Around 7:20 p.m., Kennedy and an animal-control worker arrived. They used a lasso-like device and ties to gradually bring the deer to the ground. It struggled all the while and bleated in protest.
Once on the ground, Kennedy held the deer down while her worker retrieved a stretcher from his truck.
Once they got it in a cage in the back of the animal-control truck, they removed the restraints and struggled to lock the cage. Kennedy took a moment to get her wind, then explained to the neighbors what would happen to the deer.
The fence between the Brewery and Jess Street the deer came through:
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I hope the homeless enjoy the
I hope the homeless enjoy the meat.
Franklin Park or The Arbs?
Seems that if you release the deer in either of those locations, it will most likely end up in the same area. They should bring it to the blue hills or one of the trustees reservations just west of Boston
Too many deer in the blue
Too many deer in the blue hills. Feed it to the homeless. Deer are overpopulated in MA.
Bring it to the Fells
Coyotes seem to have a handle on the population.
Roslindale shelter sucks.
Roslindale shelter sucks. The equivalent of an El Salvadoran jail. Just should have just let the growing feral cat colonies feed on iton Jess Street eat it.
Still?
Do you have current knowledge of that, or are you remembering what it was like a few years ago, before it was shut down and new managers brought in?
Thanks Adam as I didn't know
Thanks Adam as I didn't know they improved the staff and conditions after inspectors found deplorable conditions and neglected animals there (that poor bulldog). Good to know. Hopefully new staff has improved things over there.
The improvements have been in
The improvements have been in the news quite a bit. Google is your friend.
Thank you for enlightening me
Thank you for enlightening me. Unfortunately, I am too busy most of the time to be addicted to Google all the time like my humans these days.
Nobody is saying you need to have the Google chip implanted
No matter how useful. But maybe, just maybe, before going online and making accusations about a place, you might want to spend a minute or so researching whether those accusations are still valid.
Or physically going there to
Or physically going there to adopt.
Reading the story and viewing the pictures I can now understand
why the TLF exists. This creature was handled like a head of state. Kindness, compassion and a limo ride to boot. Meanwhile each November we ignore feather quest and its headless victims.
what is TLF?
Rogue elements of the symbionese liberation army that
espouse giblet power.
Thank You
Thank you to City of Boston Animal Care and Control for handling this professionally and humanely.
Buried the Lede
Clearly, forces have joined.
I saw this deer running
I saw this deer running around by the Dimock Health Center earlier in the day. It was clearly lost and very frightened. I got it on video before it ran off. No clue where it came from or where it went afterwards. Now I know