Colorado Parks and Wildlife warns of Christmas lights’ danger to wildlife
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) Officials with Colorado Parks and Wildlife, or CPW, say deer get caught in Christmas lights usually when they are hung too low or too loosely on bushes or trees.
The agency tweeted out a picture Wednesday of a deer they rescued after it stumbled into carelessly hung lights and got them wrapped around its antlers, mouth, and neck.
Officials with CPW say if they hadn’t gotten to him in time, he could have starved to death.
Though they don’t have the exact number of how many deer get wrapped in lights each year, they say it happens frequently during the holidays.