Beaver trapped in Texas lake rescued thanks to officers’ creative thinking, video shows

A beaver was freed from a Texas lake Sunday thanks to officers’ ingenious solution.

Southlake Department of Public Safety officers were called to a local lake Sunday morning after receiving reports that a beaver was trapped in the water, the department said in a Facebook post.

Photos show the beaver swimming in a pool of water enclosed by a stone wall several feet high on some sides.

For 30 minutes, officers tried everything they could to get the beaver out of the water, including attempting to catch him in a net and coax him off his blue floatie, both to no avail.

Then, they hatched a plan.

Officers took a plank of wood and balanced it on the floatie in the lake creating a makeshift ramp leading up to the lowest wall around the lake.

Video shows the beaver cautiously scaling the ramp to safety.

“It was a tense few moments as he lumbered up the rickety, ever-wobbling ramp back into the other lake where he will enjoy his beaver life,” officials said.

Southlake is just north of Fort Worth.

This story was originally published November 2, 2020 at 10:25 AM with the headline "Beaver trapped in Texas lake rescued thanks to officers’ creative thinking, video shows."