Warden Rick Reed of Waukesha got a call from a Delafield homeowner about a doe that went for a surprise dip in the emptied backyard pool.
Is it a doe… or a lawn ornament. See the head just beyond the slide.
“The deer apparently walked across the pool cover and fell through,” Warden Rick says of his Friday, December 12, afternoon call. “It was kind of going crazy underneath there.” The deer’s frantic energy finally propelled its head through the cover at the shallow end. Standing from the house where this photo was taken by Warden Rick, the deer looks a bit like a lawn ornament. “We knew we had to get it out of there but we weren’t sure how.”
So, Warden Rick and the landowner decided to start loosening the pool cover straps at the shallow end. “I think we had five or six off and when I went to shake the ice off, she came charging out — about a foot from the homeowner and me.” The deer bolted up into the homeowner’s yard and looked at her rescuers for about 2 to 3 minutes. “And, then off she went.”
The landowner told Warden Rick some fawns used the pool cover as a trampoline for fun last year. Appears the doe trampled the trampoline!
