Metro Detroit Animal Welfare Group Removes Plastic Pumpkin From Deer's Head

WESTLAND, MI — A metro Detroit animal rescue group tracked down a deer and removed a plastic pumpkin candy container from its head over the weekend.

Detroit Animal Welfare Group (DAWG) rescuers began looking for the deer after it was first spotted in a Livonia wooded area.

The rescue crews spend hours crossing freezing water and climbing muddy banks through thick brush searching for the deer.

They eventually found the fawn in a wooded area in Hines Park where they safely tranquilized the deer and removed the bucket from its head.

"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," the group posted to social media. "It is a young button buck, he was moderately dehydrated, SQ fluids were given, he was ear tagged due to the tranquilizing medication, which is required by law…the medication was reversed…. And he was up and on his way. He stopped for a few minutes to groom himself and look back to say thank you!"

The group thanked everyone who helped search for the deer, including the Michigan Department of Natural Resources, which gave the group permission to help the deer.