A barn owl whose wings were caught in a barbed wire fence, rendering it immobile, was rescued by two Willamette Valley women in a now viral TikTok that has garnered millions of views.
Lexie Echols, the 31-year-old TikTok user, and her sister-in-law are seen in the video carefully freeing the owl from a fence near Echols’ Lebanon home before taking it to an Oregon wildlife hospital. Echols said she originally posted the video to share with friends and family, but now she hopes it can help people who may encounter injured animals.
“If anything, the video spreads awareness on maybe what you could do in that situation, or what not to do, since we were kind of figuring it out as we went along, but the fact that so many people were ready to just support the organization who was taking the owl in was huge,” Echols said. “I couldn’t have asked for anything better to come out of that.”…