prairienights

I have zillions of mule deer that hang out right in my backyard (of course, I'm surrounded by beautiful Wyoming hills). As in I'll literally have 8-pt bucks sleeping against my big glass back door. I watch the deer from the couch whenever I'm home. Along with the pheasants, hungarian partridges, foxes, pronghorns, etc.

But anyways, I noticed one of the does has a funny gait yesterday. Her hind legs are very stiff, and she jerks them up to her belly with each step. The right hind seems to be especially affected. I believe I can see some kind of wound on her left hock, I can't see anything on the right hind (and I have seen her from both sides, this video only shows her from one angle). But I'm not sure if that wound would be causing such pronounced lameness.

I saw her again this morning, and I grabbed the camera to take a video. I'm curious to see what others think of it. What might be causing her lameness? Maybe a coyote tried to bring her down and wounded her? Some kind of infection from a wound? She looks healthy otherwise, I wouldn't suspect some kind of disease. I feel bad for the poor girl, as both a vet tech and a hunter my automatic instinct is to either fix it or end it, lol. I'm guessing she'll be a coyote feast pretty soon, but in the meantime, I do feel bad watching her limp around.

Anyways, thoughts? (click on the link, it'll take you to the video)
http://s204.photobucket.com/albums/b...urrent=012.mp4

Topgun 3006

She acted a tad stiff, but I don't think there is any big problem and would guess that she'll be fine.

wyomingtrapper

She does look overall to be healthy enough. Don't underestimate the resiliency of a deer to rebound back for injury or illness. Let us know how she fairs.

wwayne90

Hi Prairienights, looks like you got the perfect place lots of animals,do you by any chance let people hunt for a price,Im a 100% dis. vet and i cant walk to far so that would be cats for me,if you want to make a few dollars email me back thank you
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