Oh Deer!

Injured Deer Runs Into Free Medical Care

Associated PressPublished: February 10, 2009

ROSSFORD, Ohio—A wounded deer found its way to free medical care in Ohio.It ran into a Toledo area pet supply store with a veterinary clinic inside and was patched up Saturday afternoon.After the manager of the PetSmart in Rossford noticed the female deer in bloody snow behind the building, the animal ran into an open door to the stockroom. Employees called police and summoned store veterinarian Agustin Cuesta.As clinic assistants held down the doe, Dr. Cuesta closed its hind leg wounds with dissolvable stitches. He says he couldn’t tell how the animal got hurt.The door was reopened to release the deer back into the wild.Store manager Trudi Urie cracked that it was a good thing the deer found the PetSmart - and not a store for hunters.