Melt your icy heart: three stranded deer saved from frozen lake
It's cold in Minnesota this time of year. Really, really cold.
So, when a Rochester local called up the local news station about a deer she'd spotted stranded on a frozen lake, things looked pretty bleak.
The poor animal had been stranded on the ice for two days, exposed to the elements, and couldn't stand on the ice any longer.
So a local hovercraft company decided to head to the rescue – and discovered not one, but three near-frozen animals.
MedCity Hovercraft runs ice fishing trips out on the lake in their hovercraft, ferrying fishermen out to the centre. As you can see in the video, it's a wide open space with nothing to grab onto, leaving the deer scrambling for purchase.
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Taking the craft out, two of the staff found the stranded animals and dragged them back to shore with a rope, essentially towing them along the ice. The animals panicked at first, but soon settled in for the journey.
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Hats off to the good Samaritans. Warms the heart, so it does.
