Man Sees Deer Struck By Car, Then Stops To Deliver Her Baby
Twenty years ago, Bill Schulte was in an accident that left him comatose for nearly two weeks. Thankfully, he managed to pull through -- but since then, the Prior Lake, Minnesota resident has come to believe his life was saved to await a higher calling.
Last Sunday, a call came through.
While on his way home from church, Schulte watched as the driver in front of him hit and killed a deer. After stopping to drag the deceased animal from the roadway, he soon discovered that there was another that still had a chance to be saved.
The dead deer was pregnant, and the fawn inside her was still very much alive.
"You could see its feet pushing up on the belly," he tells news station KSTP.
Nothing would have been easier than for Schulte to get in his car and drive away. But he didn't. Instead, he removed his pocket-knife and delivered the helpless fawn into the world.
"I felt where the baby was, opened up, and pulled the baby out because the baby wanted to slide right out, and I cleared his throat, his airway, rubbing it, and it starting breathing; everything was cool," he says.
Afterwards, Schulte drove the newborn to a nearby wildlife rehabilitation center. Amazingly, caregivers there say that the young animal, who they're calling Bambi, is doing well -- all thanks to one man who himself came so close to dying two decades earlier.
"Mama went, but the little one inside gets to live its life," says Schulte of the baby deer he saved.