Video captured the moment wildlife officers helped remove a bucket that was stuck – for a week – on the head of a bear in Denver.
Colorado Parks and Wildlife posted video of the rescue to Facebook on Thursday, calling it a ‘wildlife rescue success story.’
The bear spent a whole week running around the foothills west of Boulder with a chicken feeder stuck on its head but when residents reported it, wildlife officers were able to track her down.
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Video captured the moment wildlife officers helped remove a bucket that was stuck on the head of a Denver bear for a week
Colorado Parks and Wildlife posted video of the rescue on Thursday, calling it a ‘wildlife rescue success story.’
The rescue was set in motion by Boulder residents Drew McConaughy and his friend Dave Sherman who spotted the bear while working on a cabin in the foothills, The Denver Channel reported.
‘We were just sitting having lunch around noon and we heard a rustle down in the woods, so we went down to investigate, and we saw the bear running through the woods, the one with the bucket on its head,’ McConaughy told the Channel.
Once they saw what turned out to be a chicken feeder covering the animal’s entire head, they called Colorado Parks and Wildlife.