Great horned owls are protected animals, with one being more thankful for a helping human hand than any of the others after being rescued Wednesday from a barbed wire fence.The bird became tangled in the fence on Concord Road in Warren County sometime Tuesday night and struggled to free itself until about 12:30 p.m. on Wednesday when Tennessee Wildlife Resource Agency officer Marty Griffith came to its aid.An effort to save the bird began at approximately 8 a.m.“My heart went out to it,” said Laverne Vaughn of seeing the bird for the first time. “It was hanging there by one wing struggling to free itself. When I got close, it stopped and looked at me as if saying ‘help me.’”Vaughn, and later a Warren County postal employee delivering mail, began contacting agencies trying to get the bird some help.“I saw the bird at about 11 a.m.,” said postal carrier Sandra Floyd.