That stuff gets nasty sometimes, when you have to get livestock out of a jam. Sometimes that only solution is to cut apart whatever device it gets stuck in, or shoot the animal and cut it apart.
I've seen a couple of animals that tore their own head/throat apart when put into a squeeze chute for branding, and saw lots slipping on manure-slick concrete floors. Then getting a leg pinned cross-wise under the lowest board in a chute so that they can't get up.
Some of those pictures make you wonder what the animals were doing to get stuck like that. Some of them would be in some serious trouble I can imagine.
I Caught a wood pecker one time that had got its head stuck between two fence boards. It never made it very long after I let it go. I had to cut the banister out of our railing when I was younger because our dog got its head stuck in it to and was freaking out.
had to kill a elk calf last year that got its head stuck between 2 trees. first i freed it propped it up for several days,seemed from all the struggling the back end was paralysed. also have rescued several beef calves hung up between trees. have also found many deer eaten alive hung up on fences,not a pretty picture.
found a real nice whitetail with one antler stuck under a spruce root,he was dead and eaten but head still in the air. Freakyest was a cow that climbed the stairs of a abandoned house and couldn't go back down, it had to be up there at least 20 yr totaly mumified.
Stupid animals getting heads stuck
bb19, that pic of the skunk made my day!
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