Animal Rescuers Free Doe Trapped Between Long Island School Fences

Animal rescuers in New York have freed a helpless doe that was trapped between a school's fences for hours.

The doe was found upside down and wedged between two chain-link fences surrounding the football field at Rocky Point High School on Tuesday morning. Officials at the school called Strong Island Animal Rescue League to help rescue the distressed animal.

Rescuers armed with wire cutters arrived at the location around 9 a.m. They believe the doe spent at least part of the night being stuck there.

"When we got there, I immediately started cutting the fence, was able to get it down enough to pull the front half of her body out," Frankie Floridia, the president of Strong Island Animal Rescue, told Newsday.

Floridia was assisted by Lisa Jaeger, who runs the non-profit Jaeger's Run Animal Rescue Inc. in Port Jefferson Station. The two started cutting the fence at an angle so that it would be easier for the doe to get out without injuring itself. With one final pull on Floridia's end, the doe was free.

Fortunately, the animal did not sustain any serious injury and ran back into the wild shortly after being rescued.

Strong Island Animal Rescue wrote about the successful mission in an Instagram post, noting, "With no broken legs she was good to go and ran off to be free again."

Jaeger said it wasn't uncommon for a deer to get trapped in between fences. "Sometimes, when they go to jump a fence, they don't make it; the fences are flexible [so] they fall down in between," she said.

Floridia already responded to similar situations in the past, reported Patch. In October, he rescued another deer who was trapped between a concrete wall and a fence.

According to him, people should call law enforcement or animal rescuers if they encounter similar situations. "Don't attempt to do it yourself," he said, as per the outlet.

Earlier this month, two groundkeepers at a Long Island high school found an owl entangled and trapped in a baseball net on the school ground. They carefully freed each leg of the bird, making sure not to injure it. Once freed, the exhausted bird flew away.