In January 2023, during a brutal cold snap that pushed temperatures to -22°F across parts of northern Minnesota, a postal carrier on a rural route noticed something on the front porch of an abandoned farmhouse that had been vacant for over two years
.At first she thought it was a pile of old rags frozen to the boards.She almost kept walking.When she stepped closer, she saw fur. Then she saw the ears. Then she saw that the animal was not dead, but was so still and so ice-covered that the difference was almost impossible to tell.It was a…