• Trending

    ‘This guy needs help’: Neighbors rally around injured Whidbey Island deer

    “This thing is hobbling around, and the foot is infected,” Ramsey told KING 5. “I’m not going to wrestle a deer. So, what do I do now?” OAK HARBOR, Wash. — A young deer on Whidbey Island has become the focus of a neighborhood effort to find veterinary care, after residents noticed a piece of PVC pipe lodged around one of its legs. Robert “Bob” Ramsey, a longtime Whidbey Island resident, said he first noticed the pipe about a month ago on a deer born in the neighborhood less than a year ago. At first, he hoped the pipe would…