“When Gothenburg resident Ola Enbågen went out to get his paper from his post box, he was gobsmacked to be facing a deer with a cactus-like growth on his head grazing in his garden. ‘He was looking straight at me and I just thought ‘damn, he looks strange,’ Enbågen told The Local. The deer, which turned out to be suffering from a condition called gnarly cactus, or cactus buck, was startled at Enbågen’s arrival and jumped over the rhododendron shrubbery and disappeared. ‘But when I was having breakfast he returned, so I took some pictures and filmed him through the window,’ Enbågen said. The film clip, featured below, clearly shows the deer with its bizarre head gear moving around the garden. Gnarly cactus is a condition which causes the animal’s antlers to continue growing until they cover its eyes. Normally, a hormonal impulse stirs the bucks to rub the velvet off its antlers every year, and eventually shed them.” w/ photos
