Frank Cuestayoutuber and animal activist originally from Spain, suffered a strong accident during a live broadcast after he was hit by one of the deer who live in their animal sanctuary.
The influencer made one more transmission from his shrine in Bangkok, Thailandin a small lake and at the bottom were the deerof which he says he was already going to remove “some cables” from the horns of the largest of them, without further explaining what he was referring to.
Very naturally, as he always lives with animals, he talks to them and names them. “What’s up Puppy?” when he passes in front of him, moment in which the deer decides to attack him and starts attacking him.
Frank seeks to control the deer by taking it by its antlersbut it does not stop attacking as it already has him against the floor, at some point He knocks him down again and tries to gore him again.. Little by little, the influencer begins to regain a little control and takes it to the top of the area to the animal, where It seems that she begins to separate from him.
It’s several minutes of fighting and where only Frank’s screams can be heard like the great deer’s attempts to continue its attack and not let go until it has been subdued. Once he man manages to separategives the animal a strong blow on the head and throws a stone so that it no longer chases him.
Frank Cuesta explains what happened during the attack
In a video shared on his YouTube channel showing the attack, he explained more about what happened and noted that received several gorings from “Perrito”, even a very deep one in the area of the ribs on the right side that he pointed out could have been fatal. Furthermore, he highlighted that The attack was his fault.
“I made the mistake of leaving through an area where he couldn’t see a way out and he jumped on me. It was my fault for thinking that he had a way out and he gave me several gorings, some deeper than others, but hey, those are things about living here, I miscalculated.”Frank commented after the attack. “These are things about being with wildlife, I’m fine, I’m a little dazed from the fight, but this time we came out well.”
I have cleaned my wounds, I have cooked myself because I had a fairly deep wound, let’s see if it is okay. I have wounds all over this guy’s body and what I wanted to say is that these things happen… I’m beaten up on all sides, everything on my back is swollen he added.
He stressed that, at the time of the attack, The first thing he had to do was remove the deer antler from his body. in his deepest wound.
“Sometimes fauna, nature is like that, it’s hard, it’s screwed up, I’m lucky that I’m a big guy, I’m a strong guy, ‘Perrito’ weighs more than 200 kilos and is an animal with antlers that can hurt you. kill,” he indicated.
Commenting that he was feeling better, he stressed that this is good in some way for his sanctuary and that He has nothing left but to start recovering after the strong encounter with the “Doggy” deer.
“That means that the sanctuary works because the animals are wild, it is an animal that loved me, adores me, but it has its reactions, it has its testosterone, it has its days and that is why you always have to be very careful with these animals, any of them can be lethal.”
Who is Frank Cuesta?
Francisco Javier Cuesta Ramos it’s a 52 year old influencer which is known on social networks as Frank Cuesta and who became known in public life after participate in several television programs.
His first program was “Frank from the jungle” for string Four of Spain in 2010, a television station in which he also had the programs “The Jungle at Home” and “Natural Frank”. International fame came for him in 2014 when he began collaborating with Animal Planet for your programwild frank”, nickname with which he also began to be known by many.
After “Wild Frank” went off air in 2020, he decided to startrender his project on YouTube and expose his shelter known as “Cuestas shelter”which is located in Spain.
By 2021 he moved to Thailand where he opened a sanctuary of about 37 hectares located in bangkokone who seeks giving homes to animals that cannot be released into Thailand’s wildlife not being typical of there and where they live in semi-freedom. The large space has a cave, a lake, an artificial canal and diverse vegetation.
Constantly broadcasts live on his Twitch channel where it shows life in the sanctuary and explains the coexistence between animals or the arrival of new species. In Spain has become a controversial figure for his different comments when always talking about politicswhich is why it has been designated as extremist.
Published in The Sun of Puebla