Bumpy Rescue


Mr. Floridia took his shirt off and ran after Storm into the water. The fawn ran with full force but couldn’t stretch her run past 250 feet, with the rescuer finally getting a hold on him. Pulling the deer out was an arduous task which caused a knee injury to Mr. Floridia. He immediately collapsed on the ground and his companion Ms. Kutzing took care of the rest. Despite suffering an injury, Floridia walked out of the beach as a happy man as it was worth it.

Finally Calmed Down

The Fawn was scared to the bones as he kept moving and thumping when Ms. Kutzing carried him back to her van. He was drenched in water and gradually calmed down when Kutzing wiped him with a dry towel. By what they had examined, it was 3-month-old white-tailed deer. While the baby deer was successfully rescued and was now out of danger, it would take him a couple more days to make it back to the woods.

Not Just Safe Yet

The fawn was out of danger now, but it didn’t mean that he was a hundred percent. The little deer had to wait for a while before he making it back to the woods. He had suffered severe injuries including a bruised up and swollen eye. The rescuers examined the fawn and concluded that he needed to be medically observed for a few more days. Erica and Frankie drove the deer back to a local wildlife rehabilitation center owned by the STAR Foundation. He’s in safe hands now.

On The Path To Recovery

The deer was further handed over to the Save The Animals Rescue Foundation. It took him a couple of days to get back to a stable condition. He was nursed with antibiotics and aided with a drinking formula. He had suffered from multiple injuries that included wounds on his head and a swollen eye which had been shut due to the fall.

How Come?

The question that amazed everyone was that how did a wild baby deer who belongs to the woods ended up in the middle of a water body. While the exact details of how it happened can’t be traced, the rescuers at the Strong Island Animal Rescue suggested a theory that the fawn must have lost track of his whereabouts and was frightened after losing the sight of his mother. The wounds over his body also hinted the fact that he had fallen off from a decent height and eventually ended up in the water body. No matter how he got himself in this lethal ordeal, the good thing was that he made it out alive.

Viral Hero

Everything, even the ordinary stuff ends up landing on social media these days and the heroic act pulled by Storm was nothing short of marvelous. Mark took to his Facebook and uploaded the rescue footage and the video went places in no time. While Mark had expected nothing but a hundred views, he was taken aback by the pervasiveness of social media when his video broke the internet by racking up as much as 5.2 million views. Woah! Someone must be feeling famous.