Deer Miraculously Survives After Being Impaled Inside Grille of Car
It isn’t uncommon to be driving or walking down the road and find an animal along your path. Sometimes it’s a bunny shuffling in the grass, sometimes it’s a cat taking a stroll outside before it heads home to its loving owners.
Sometimes, however, you happen upon an injured animal in your path. Take cyclist Jarrett Little, for example. As he and his friends were mountain biking in Georgia, an injured dog approached them hesitantly. That’s when Little decided to place the dog on his back and give him a ride into town, where they ran into a woman that decided to save the sweet puppy.
However, if you live in a wooded area, you understand the constant caution driving down back roads, especially at night.
There is always the risk that while you are gliding down the road in front of you, a furry, four-legged creature will jump out in front of you. Most of the time, that creature is a deer (or maybe even two or three).
Deer can cause a lot of damage to a vehicle, but even more so a vehicle can cause a lot of damage to a deer.
That’s why it was such a miracle when a deer, specifically a male brocket, got caught in the grille of one man’s car — and lived.
After a motorway accident on the ERS-453 highway in Rio Grande do Sul, south Brazil, one man accidentally hit a deer and kept driving for 12 miles, as the deer was wedged deep in the bodywork of the car and the man was completely unaware.
The man claimed that he had no idea that the deer had been sucked into the vehicle when the man was involved in the collision and the deer leapt out.
In fact, the deer was deep beneath the car, underneath the engine.
The man stopped at a petrol station where two sportsmen, Rodrigo Gross and Samuel Germann, who were returning from a motocross competition revealed the hidden passenger.
Gross then filmed Germann rescuing the animal from the grille of the car. Germann grasped the brocket’s two hind legs and attempted to free him several times.
When he finally got the creature free, the brocket cried in agony, and they knew they had to save him.
“We had just arrived at the gas station when the car pulled in with the animal embedded in the grille. We weren’t sure if it was still alive and Samuel was concerned that if it was, we could make matters worse,” Gross said.
“Some people suggested that we should put it out of its misery and kill it anyway. But from the moment we heard the animal scream out in terror, we decided it should be given every chance to survive,” he added.
The brocket was transferred to the veterinary hospital at Gramado Zoo after being treated briefly by environmental protection agents.
“We began urgent care straight away when it arrived around 10 p.m. that night. The animal was in very bad state with bruising and swelling, but to our surprise, it had no broken bones or fractures. We gave it some medication to relieve the pain, then sedated it and took it to a quarantine area in the zoo,” Renan Alves Stadler, technical operations chief at the zoo, said.
The vets treated the animal for over a month, feeding him a special feed containing papaya, cabbage, grass and other supplements.
After the animal was restored to its health, they released the brocket back into the wild.
Thank goodness for the sweet and gentle care of this zoo! We’re so happy this adorable creature was restored back to health.
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