Caught in the Grip of Death

This post contains parts of a dead animal.  If that bothers you, I'm sorry.

 

The other day while checking things, we came across a dead deer.  But not one which had just died.  This one died from simply misjudging the height of a fence.  

 

While the mule deer was jumping the fence, her back leg hung up in the barbed wire.  She went over, thus entangling herself to the point that she was stuck for good.  We didn't find her until it was too late.  Looking at the ground below where she hung, we could tell that she had panicked; the grass was kicked up until only dirt was left.  Because she yanked around, a bunch of her hair was left hanging on the fence.

 

We guess that while she was in her panic some coyotes heard her and came to satisfy their hunger.  This is all that was left by the time we found her.

 

Sure, it can gross people out, make them think "how cruel!" but it's a fact of life.  No humans were out there at the time she got caught, so no one had any idea she was stuck.  We just found it interesting and I wanted to post it. 

 

Thanks for bearing with me.  : )