Coimbatore: Two female spotted deer which were recently admitted to the Wildlife Transit and Treatment Centre (WTTC) at Pethikuttai in the Sirumugai forest range in Coimbatore district, are recovering well after due treatment, said forest officials on Tuesday.A two-and-a-half-year-old female spotted deer was found to have difficulty walking, after a PVC pipe got stuck on its left hind leg in the Mettupalayam forest range. Staff rescued the animal and brought it to the rescue centre for treatment on March 16. A minor surgery was performed a couple of days later at the operation centre.On March 20, another female spotted deer was found with a fracture in its front left leg. Officials said it likely suffered the fracture when attempting to escape from stray dogs in Mettupalayam. It was rescued and taken to the WTTC for treatment. Both deer were treated successfully and are now recovering in the quarantine for herbivores.Since its inauguration in December last year, the centre has also treated a pair of slender lorises and a kite, which were earlier cared for at the Avian Recuperation Centre at the district forest office in north Coimbatore before being shifted to the WTTC.“We gave energy tonics and monitored the health of both slender lorises before releasing them in the Udumalai forest range after their condition improved satisfactorily. Likewise, after the kite became fit to fly, we released it at the Bhavanisagar backwaters,” said an official of the centre.
