Deer in fence

This evening when I was riding my bicycle home three deer were across the road in the neighbor's field along with the horses.  As I approached the deer jumped the fence back to the road.  Then they went into the ditch and looked where to jump my fence.  One deer made it over.  The second moved a little way down the fence and then jumped over.  The third deer moved further down the fence and then jumped over.  This deer got its legs over the fence. But before it reached the ground its legs got entangled in the barb wire.

Both front legs were together and two strands of wire were crossed holding the legs in place just above the hooves.  One rear leg was stuck in the wire.  Somehow three strands of wire wrapped around one another.  The other rear leg was among the wire but not trapped.  The deer was laying on its back on the ground on the other side of the fence.

I stopped to help the deer.  I got the one leg out of the wire and then was kicked.  The kick knocked me back to the ground in the ditch.  Then I tried to free the other legs.  I couldn't.  The wires were wrapped so tight I couldn't pull them apart to free the legs.  A guy in a pickup truck stopped to help.  What I needed was a bar or something to pry the wires apart.  He looked in his truck and couldn't find anything.  So I rode home to get some bars.

When I got back the deer was gone.  The guy said when I left the deer started moving to free its legs.  He held on one wire and the deer pulled its legs free and left.  The deer is going to have some sore legs for a while.  I hope this teaches it to avoid or be more careful when jumping a fence.