Mounties called it a “rescue” of an “unruly deer.” But really it was on heck of an unusual break-and-enter.
On Jan. 23, a deer squeezed through a small dog door at a Kamloops, B.C. home, which prompted a call to the RCMP. The animal was jumping at the fireplace and the window trying to make an escape.
Some items, including a TV, were damaged during its attempts to get back to a, well, more natural habitat.
“Wildlife inside a house can be extremely destructive,
” Constable Crystal Evelyn of the Kamloops RCMP said in a statement. “In this case, police were able to safely help the deer out, preventing any further harm from occurring to the animal or the house.
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But police did get a handle on the four-legged intruder in the most imaginative way.
Officers used a blanket to cover the deer’s head, then held it down, placed a rug underneath it, and slid the deer out of the house.
It really did sort of slip, slide away.
Police rescue Kamloops home from unruly deer https://t.co/RkbPvXfKRN #Kamloops pic.twitter.com/diCYN2C7pd
— Kamloops RCMP (@KamloopsRCMP) January 28, 2021
Despite all the smashing and thrashing, the deer wasn’t badly hurt.
It received, what police called, only a “minor cut to its mouth when it entered the house through the dog door.”
