{"id":906840,"date":"2026-09-27T01:20:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T01:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/906840\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T01:20:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T01:20:12","slug":"long-island-deer-gets-caught-in-ny-hammock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/906840\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Island deer gets caught in NY hammock"},"content":{"rendered":"

He went buck wild! <\/p>\n

What should have been a picturesque moment devolved into chaos when a deer wandering through a Long Island backyard got its antlers stuck in a hammock \u2014 and video shows the flailing woodland creature\u2019s dramatic rescue.<\/p>\n

Frank Floridia<\/a>, president of the nonprofit Strong Island Animal Rescue League<\/a>, sprang into action when the distressed homeowner called Friday looking for help.<\/p>\n

\"AA deer stuck in a hammock is freed by Frank Floridia, president of the nonprofit Strong Island Animal Rescue League. Strong Island Animal Rescue<\/p>\n

The animal expert, donning an antler-proof vest, expertly uses scissors to carefully cut the netting, as the deer slowly begins to settle down, video of the rescue shows.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not long before Bambi is finally freed \u2014 and high tails it away from the Lake Grove home, the video shows.<\/p>\n

This month alone, Floridia<\/a> has rescued five Long Island deer from makeshift traps, and urged homeowners to take down outside equipment when they\u2019re not using it to avoid such catastrophes.<\/p>\n

\u201cHomeowners should take caution that due to all the construction going on that deer are more frequently ending up in backyards,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cHammocks and athletic equipment such as volleyball, soccer and lacrosse nets are a great danger to bucks and male deer that will most likely get their antlers tangled in them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Although he\u2019s licensed and trained in animal rescue<\/a>, it\u2019s still a precarious situation to save a trapped deer, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe rescues are extremely dangerous to both the deer and the rescuer as the deer can get stressed and have a heart attack and the rescuer can get trampled and or impaled by the antlers.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He went buck wild! What should have been a picturesque moment devolved into chaos when a deer wandering…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":906841,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[123578,1313,64,63,89708,5607,1625,44554,128,42364,338],"class_list":["post-906840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-animal-rescue","tag-animals","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-deer","tag-exclusive","tag-lifestyle","tag-long-island","tag-science","tag-weird-but-true","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=906840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/906841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=906840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=906840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=906840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}