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[Underwaterbob]

OK. I live in a house in a smallish city in Korea. There is a deer trapped in my yard. I opened the gate, but he's reluctant to leave. I'd guess the crazy thunderstorms we're getting right now somehow drove him (through a fair amount of residential area) to somehow get through the fence. I'm afraid he's gonna hurt himself trying to jump the back concrete fence into the neighbors garden.

Does anyone have any experience with animal control in Korea? If I call them, are they gonna show up and manhandle the poor sucker hurting him more? Judging from the amount of wildlife I see in Korea, he's likely endangered. Should I just leave the gate open overnight and hope he makes his way out?

Gah, it just started pouring rain, poor little guy.

[Underwaterbob]

Well, problem solved, sort of...

I went out to check on him and he took off, ran around the house and out the gate down the road towards the farmer's fields. There's a couple blocks of houses and one big road between here and there, but there are a couple of underpasses and it's not too busy this time of night. He'll hopefully be OK. I tried to get a picture, but it's too wet and dark.

[nathanrutledge]

I don't have experience with animals/animal control in Korea, but plenty back home.

Just open the gate and leave it be. If it wants to leave, it will leave when it's ready to. You're going to cause it more stress and possible injury if you try and force it to go on its own. The only real problem you have is if it decides to wander into your house or somewhere even more confined in the yard.

Personally, I'd just leave it alone UNLESS you live in an area where there are actual game and parks type people. The local cops wouldn't know what to do and it wouldnt end well, IMO. If there were some true animal people, I'd call them IF it didn't leave on its own.

As far as rain goes, remember - it's a deer. They don't have dens/caves/huts etc to go to. They stay in the rain, so no worries there.

[Underwaterbob]

I'm not too far from Woraksan, where they have endangered mountain goats that I know they make at least some effort to protect.

He was just chilling out in the corner behind some scrubby bush things I ought to have mown off ages ago. When he took off I was surprised how fast he could move. He didn't seem too stressed out about it, boing boing boing, around the house and out the gate. My biggest worry was when a couple friends of mine were gawping and he started jumping against the concrete wall. Thankfully they had the brains to leave him alone at that point. I imagine he's back in the nearest apple orchard by now.

[Jake_Kim]

People usually call 119, then those rescuers will come by to handle the situation themselves or call another animal control expert on their rolodex for technical support.
There are organizations, public and private, for wild animals, but no one really bothers oneself with finding out their numbers. 119 is almost always the simplest solution if you think you need to call it in.

[Underwaterbob]

Thought about 119, but honestly I don't trust this town's "authority" to deal with the situation. I could be wrong and they might have some kind of wild animal specialist, but the only thing I've actually seen local animal control do is cause the "disappearance" of stray cats and dogs. Audible dog restaurants are in abundance around here.

[pkang0202]

Too bad you couldn't trap it. Venison is delicious.