For context, we live in a heavily wooded area with lots of deer. Our home is fully fenced with a gate on the driveway that I close every evening.
I had just gotten out of the shower and was finishing my morning routine, still in a towel. My wife mentioned someone was at the door, which is odd given that I'd yet to open the gate. She walks into the living room and starts freaking out immediately.
There is a several week old fawn on our back patio that has begun launching itself at our back glass door, attempting to escape. We noticed that the lady that was out front is now in our backyard attempting to get the fawn back to the front and into the woods. We also realized our dog is like 5 feet away from this thing and slowly stats to approach. We of course freak out, not knowing how the dog will react and are unable to get outside quickly to shepherd to dog away so the fawn can escape. Still in my towel, I quickly threw on some boxer briefs in case I need to go out and help, which I did. The following then occurred in the span of 10 minutes:
The lady and her husband, who live 2 houses down, had been walking and saw the fawn stuck in our front yard fence. I'd apparently trapped it and its sibling in the yard over night when I closed the gate (I could NOT see them when I closed it). She helped get it loose which then resulted in the chaos above.
Holy shit.
I had just gotten out of the shower and was finishing my morning routine, still in a towel. My wife mentioned someone was at the door, which is odd given that I'd yet to open the gate. She walks into the living room and starts freaking out immediately.
There is a several week old fawn on our back patio that has begun launching itself at our back glass door, attempting to escape. We noticed that the lady that was out front is now in our backyard attempting to get the fawn back to the front and into the woods. We also realized our dog is like 5 feet away from this thing and slowly stats to approach. We of course freak out, not knowing how the dog will react and are unable to get outside quickly to shepherd to dog away so the fawn can escape. Still in my towel, I quickly threw on some boxer briefs in case I need to go out and help, which I did. The following then occurred in the span of 10 minutes:
- The fawn ran off the patio, into the yard, then dove into the fucking pool.
- Said lady, went in after it in fear of it drowning - I, now at least wearing underwear, run outside to assist.
- The fawn gets out of the pool and bolts to the back fence where we have a netted batting cage - it somehow gets inside and is now trapped
- The damn thing starts darting from side to side, throwing itself into the netting trying and failing to escape. It eventually got its leg stuck and I had to carefully untangle it.
- Said lady opens the back gate so it has a clear path to get out of my yard -- the fawn finally got out of the batting cage, rested for a second, then bolted to the corner of the yard/fence
- Fawn now stuck in the fucking fence -- I tried to pry off a fence post so it could wiggle through, but it would have injured it given the angle it was stuck
- Lady walks around the back of the fence, lifts the fawn from the front while I lift from the back
- I grab the fawn and proceed to carry it ~400ft from the back yard to the edge of the driveway in nothing but boxer briefs
- Little shit bolts off into the woods
The lady and her husband, who live 2 houses down, had been walking and saw the fawn stuck in our front yard fence. I'd apparently trapped it and its sibling in the yard over night when I closed the gate (I could NOT see them when I closed it). She helped get it loose which then resulted in the chaos above.
Holy shit.