Police Who Saved Skunk Last Year Free a Fawn This Year

ROCHESTER, MI – Officers from the Rochester Police Department had another wild adventure Monday.

This is the same police department whose officers rescued a baby skunk that had somehow gotten its head trapped in a yogurt cup last year. The officer who performed the potentially smelly rescue got his 15 minutes of internet fame and a mention on NBC’s “Today” show, and the little skunk presumably grew up and lived happily ever after.

Kids today.

Fair warning: The video of the rescue that police shot and posted on Facebook Tuesday has a haunting soundtrack.

The poor fawn’s plaintive bleating — police described the distress calls as “howling” — will stab at your heart. And poor Mama was “frantically running around trying to help her baby,” according to the Facebook post.

Heart-hurting stuff.

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She didn’t leave the area until her baby was liberated. The two Rochester police officers who freed the fawn checked the animal over for injuries, then reunited it with its mother.

Another happy ending and the video is, well, wildly popular.

It had been viewed 54,000 times by Tuesday night and had generated dozens of comments, many of them cloaked in humor, but all saying basically the same thing: Cops are a dedicated group of public servants, a soft- and big-hearted lot who go above and beyond the call of duty to keep their communities safe for all inhabitants — even skunks and deer.

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