Rescue attempt No. 1 did not go as planned, but everything eventually worked out for this wayward baby deer.
A baby deer on Long Island got separated from his mother and accidentally went for a dip in a swimming pool.
Greg Masaitis and 12-year-old Anthony were sitting in their backyard when they noticed the fawn wobbling in their backyard. “I started recording to show my wife and daughter when suddenly it fell into the pool,” recalled Masaitis of St. James.Get Southern California news, weather forecasts and entertainment stories to your inbox.“Hang on, hang on, back up Anthony the mother won’t like that,” Masaitis says in the video, fearful that the mother deer would reject the baby if it got too close to humans.
But Masaitis said they didn’t have much choice after the fawn fell into the pool and struggled to get out. “I was like oh my gosh, is she going to drown?” Anthony asked himself. “Is she going in the deep end? Do I have to go inside the pool to get her?”
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