‘Happy tears’: Detroit rescue group removes plastic pumpkin bucket from deer’s head after 10-day search

WESTLAND – A young deer is back in the wild after a Metro Detroit rescue group determined to remove a plastic pumpkin candy container from its head finally managed to track down and sedate the animal in Hines Park.

Rescuers with the Detroit Animal Welfare Group (DAWG) spent 10 days searching — crossing freezing water and climbing up muddy banks through thick brush — before finding and safely tranquilizing the deer at the Westland park to remove the bucket from its head.

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