Good NewsMinnesota man delivers baby fawn after its mother was struck and killed by car
After its mother died in a traffic accident, a baby deer is alive thanks to a good Samaritan -- and his trusty pocket knife, Mike Binkley reports (1:54).
WCCO 4 News At 6 – May 20, 2014
In Prior Lake, Minnesota, this weekend, a Good Samaritan's quick-thinking saved a newborn fawn's life.
Bill Schulte was driving home from church on Sunday when he witnessed a car strike a deer. The animal died on impact.
When Schulte got out of his vehicle to move the deer off the road, he discovered she was pregnant. The baby was still kicking.
Schulte grabbed his pocket knife and performed a crude emergency c-section, cutting the newborn fawn out of her mother's abdomen.
"Felt where the baby was, opened up, and pulled the baby out because the baby wanted to slide right out, and cleared his throat, his airway, rubbing it, and it starting breathing; everything was cool,” Schulte told KSTP.
He named the newborn Bambi.
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Bambi is now doing well at the Wildfire Rehabilitation Center of Minnesota. Bambi will likely be prepared for a return to the wild at the end of the summer.
“It’s kind of crazy,” wildlife rehabilitator Polly Rixe told CBS Minnesota of Bambi's birth story. “I wouldn’t necessarily promote people doing that, but I guess for this particular fawn, it’s a happy ending.”
If you find a fawn on its own this summer, here are some tips on how to know if it needs your help (and what to do if it does).
