St. Casimir Cemetery Deer Freed From Cheeseball Jug Stuck On Head

CHICAGO — It takes a village to save a baby deer with a cheeseball jug stuck on his head, and maybe a few professional cowboys and some drones. The fawn at St. Casimir Cemetery in Chicago is believed to have dislodged the jug on his own after having his head stuck in it for five days.

“We’re confident we found the jug,” Oak Lawn-resident Jamie Stahulak told Patch.

Illinois Conservation Police spent about six hours Friday shooing the cemetery’s herd of 200 deer out of the tall native grass in the section of St. Casimir near 115th Street and Cicero Avenue, where they like to bed down during the day.

“But we didn’t see a deer with a jug on its head,” Stahulak said.

>>> Race On To Save St. Casimir Deer With Cheeseball Jug Stuck On His Head

Stahulak and her friend, Jen Gordon, saw the baby deer in the cemetery Thursday morning, who was being guarded by his parents, but who’ve been known to stray away for carrots. She was about three feet away from the fawn when he got up and hit his head against a post trying to get the jug off. The bottom cracked open.

Chicago Animal Care and Control finally showed up Friday and spent about an hour at the cemetery. Stahulak said they flew a drone over a section of the cemetery and assumed that the deer may have freed itself.

Another neighbor of Stahulak’s also showed up Friday with his drone. The Mexican cowboys returned with their ropes.

Stahulak found the jug laying in the snow at St. Casimir Saturday morning.

The dreaded cheeseball jug.

“I went back to the cemetery at 8:10 this morning and 10 minutes into my route this morning, as I turned the Southeast corner of section 12, THERE IT WAS! THE JUG!!! He did, in FACT, somehow get it off! And now we have proof!” she wrote in a jubilant Facebook post.

We also reached out to our deer whisperer source, who confirmed the baby buck was truly freed of his cheeseball jug shackles.

“I see they finally caught up with Bucket Head,” the deer whisperer said in a text. “I’m super happy to hear.”

Oak Lawn Police Department Animal Control, Cook County Animal and Rabies Control, and dozens of residents also assisted in the rescue mission.