Talk about some unwanted, holiday hangover for this deer in Michigan.
Spooky Season has came and went, despite some of your neighbors probably still having 7-foot tall skeletons in their front yards (where do they put those things the rest of the year?). It’s around this time of the year that folks pack up their fall, Halloween decor and start switching it out for Christmas.
One poor deer in the Detroit area has been longing to get rid of a Halloween decoration stuck to its noggin’ for over a week.
While a pumpkin candy bucket might seem harmless, it’s certainly caused quite the disruption for a young buck in Michigan. The deer evidently let its curiosity get the best of it, and stuck its head inside the bucket (that must have been left out on someone’s porch) and got stuck. The Halloween bucket’s handle slid over its head, and stayed that way for 10 days.
Detroit Animal Welfare Group, a nonprofit organization in the area, got wind of the hazardous situation and launched a rescue mission. Time was of the essence, since the deer was unable to eat or drink with the pumpkin on its head. This past Sunday, the deer was spotted in an area called Hines Park, and the Detroit Animal Welfare Group saw it as their last, great opportunity to save the button buck.
In a post shared by the nonprofit organization, they pulled out all of the stops – and battled the elements – to ultimately save the young buck’s life:
“Mission accomplished! Just as we were getting ready to leave because dark was setting in and darting in the dark is not ideal, there was a sighting in Hines Park. It was not easy as we followed the deer through the woods and waded through a 20 foot wide river not once, not twice , but four times that was up to our thighs of freezing cold water. Climbing up tall muddy banks, hills, climbing through fallen branches and thick brush….but we were able to safely dart the deer.
That’s great news… and the deer walked away with a stylish new accessory attached to its ear.
Like the above post explained, that’s more so for the safety of hunters than it is the deer. Since it was given medicine, and the Detroit Animal Welfare Group immediately let it resume its regularly scheduled activities without taking it in, it would be unsafe for humans to consume for a certain amount of time. That’s why the tag reads “Do Not Eat Until 12/8/26.”
Let’s just hope that the “Do Not Eat” tag also works on the deer’s potential predators… would be nice with all it’s already been through to have a month of no-worry living.
