Baby buck saved from lingering death
A baby buck whose back legs were shattered by a motorist while it was crossing a road in Mt Edgecombe is lucky to be alive.
A BABY bush buck (yearling) was left for dead on the side of the road after a motorist hit the buck and drove off at a popular golf estate in Mt Edgecombe.
Fortunately for the yearling, another motorist stopped and rushed the injured animal to a local vet.
Dee Bennion, who works at the vet, but does not want to name the practice, said a witness travelling behind the motorist saw him run over the baby buck, that was crossing the road with its mother in the estate.
Bennion said the witness saw the driver get out his car, saw it was badly injured, and climbed back into his car and simply drove off.
“Had someone not seen what happened, the baby buck would just have been left to die a very painful and lingering death. Both its back legs have been shattered. Some time back, a mature bush buck was also hit by a speeding car and was found in the garden of one of the properties with a broken hind leg, that was consequently shot,” she said.
She said in another recent incident a resident of the same golf estate was seen to ‘deliberately drive onto, and park on top of a large beautiful pregnant house snake’.
“Something definitely needs to be done. Either remove all the wildlife from the estate, or remove anyone that is not sticking to road rules or found blatantly injuring the wildlife, and blacklisted from any similar estates from then on,” Bennion added.
Remove the resident, I just love the wild life
I think that this callous people knocking over innocent animals in they territory should be punished. How can one be so heartless. Would they like it if someone knocks them over and they are left for dead? Totally disgusting. They should implement rules like zimabli as they speed limit is 40 anyone driving higher than that are fine if anyone kills their wildlife further punishment are taken.
@sanjana – the speed limit is 40km on the estate and they regularly enforce with speed traps… Not the estates fault that there are disgusting people who live there who have a total disregard for an animals life
Don’t assume it was a resident. There are hundreds of contractors and visitors driving on the Estate every day. Utterly despicable behaviour, but I highly doubt it was a resident.