If you’ve ever driven in a wooded area and seen a deer jump out from the side of the road, you’ll know how quickly they appear out of nowhere, and how little time you have to swerve out of the way.
While driving through British Columbia on their way to a fishing trip, Sean Steele and his wife saw a deer jump out in front of the car they had been driving behind. With virtually no time to avoid the animal, the car struck the deer and sent it flying to the side of the road.
Steele pulled over right away, got his knife out, and prepared to put the dying deer out of its misery, yet when he stepped closer he saw a baby peeking out of a small tear in the mother’s belly. “She wasn’t feeling very good and was kind of cut open, and that’s when I seen the leg of the fawn,” Steele said.
Steele just followed his instincts in that moment, and seconds later he was using his knife to perform an emergency c-section on the dying deer to save the unharmed baby.
Steele then wiped the baby down with his sweater, cleared its throat of mucous with his fingers, and sprinkled grass on the baby’s nose to get it to sneeze and clear out any other mucous that might block its airways.
“Yeah, it was pretty much instinct and curiosity; see what’s in there,” Steele said of the moment he found the baby, who is now safely being cared for at the Northern Lights Wildlife Society, and is set to be released into the wild by fall.
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[Featured image: Facebook/Stephanie Steele]
Man Performs C-Section On A Pregnant Deer After She’s Hit By A Car is an article from: LifeDaily