A Michigan rescue group removed a plastic pumpkin from a deer’s snout after a 10-day search to free the young buck from the faux gourd.

Detroit Animal Welfare Group, a nonprofit in Romeo, had been chasing the deer since it was first spotted with a plastic pumpkin covering its nose and mouth 10 days ago — preventing the animal from eating or drinking.

A rescue group removes a plastic pumpkin from a deer’s snout after a 10-day search. Detroit Animal Welfare Group

On Sunday, rescuers followed the young button buck through the woods of Hines Park, a 2,300-acre expanse in Wayne County, and waded through a 20-foot-wide river four times to close in on the animal.

“Climbing up tall muddy banks, hills, climbing through fallen branches and thick brush…but we were able to safely dart the deer.…