Citizen Advocates for Lakeway Deer (CALD)—a grassroots organization of residents of Lakeway, Texas—has unveiled never-before-seen video footage of the city’s handling of so-called “surplus” deer. The footage exposes for the first time how the animals, who are lured into traps, are netted, are pinned to the ground, have their antlers sawed off, and are then hauled upside down into a trailer. They’re ultimately transported to slaughter.
After being driven 80 miles, the animals are shot in the head and butchered.
A Lakewood police detective admitted that “any animal that gets a net dropped on ’em … gets its horns cut off … gets picked up and put in a trailer upside down, that’s traumatized, you know?”
One trapped deer had previously been shot with an arrow. He lay bleeding, caught in the netting. Instead of ending the wounded deer’s suffering, the workers sawed off his…
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