Raccoon Rescued from Frozen Lake

Occurred on December 27, 2020 / Watertown, Wisconsin, USA

Info from Licensor: "I was shooting with a group of friends when we noticed something far out on a frozen lake. We could not tell what it was at first, it was not moving very much so at first, we thought it was a garbage bag. Approximately 3 1/2 hours later we decided to investigate. As we approached closer we noticed it was a raccoon that was struggling to walk and it was clearly immensely cold. My friends and I decided we were going to save this raccoon and get it back to shore. We did so by my one friend picking up the raccoon and placing it in a sled. We then used said sled to drag it to shore. After we brought it to shore, we placed it in the woods, used a tarp as a blanket, and fed it minnows. We then decided to leave it be until it was ready to go back into the woods. We left and my friend went to the hospital to get his rabies shots after being bit by the raccoon. A few hours later my other friend's sister checked on the raccoon and it had left and had returned to the wilderness."