At a 24-hour emergency animal hospital, lots of creatures come in needing help, not just dogs
and cats. Sometimes people bring in injured wildlife. One night a large bald eagle (which they
appropriately named Freedom)… and the vets weren’t expecting just how big this guy would be.
He had a broken wing, they suspect from being hit by a vehicle. Luckily, they were happy to help Freedom out of this tight spot.
The bald eagle arrived in a box…
And was bigger than anyone at the hospital could have imagined.
They tried to keep him calm and stabilized while the doctor looked him over.
Freedom had an open fracture, which is where the bone breaks and
then will break through the skin, causing some blood loss.
This big guy had quite a wingspan.
He was pretty calm throughout the entire ordeal, thankfully, which helped
both him and the vets from becoming injured.
