Jan. 12 (UPI) — A North Carolina man rescued a deer spotted wandering his neighborhood with a bucket stuck over its head.
A video captured by a neighbor in Winston-Salem shows Kevin McHugh and others pursing a deer seen wandering their neighborhood with the bucket stuck on its head.
“It was just running for its life– smashing into everything in front of it and totally blind,” McHugh told WXII-TV. “Hopping around because it couldn’t see– and thought it was in the dark. It was like a zombie movie, it was really terrifying.”
McHugh was finally able to get close enough to pull the bucket from the deer’s head.
“It was terrifying,” McHugh said. “If I didn’t have my adrenaline going the whole time, I would’ve probably run from the deer instead of going toward the deer.”
McHugh said he wasn’t thinking about his own safety.
“The only thing I thought to do was try to wrestle the bucket off its head,” McHugh said. “And I succeeded.”
Animal rescuers in Michigan conducted a similar rescue last month when a deer was spotted wandering a Bloomfield Hills neighborhood with a plastic Halloween bucket stuck over its head.
South Lyon Murphy Lost Animal Recovery managed to use a net trap to capture the deer in a resident’s yard and removed the bucket.
