MAGNOLIA, Texas — A fawn took an unexpected dip in a Texas swimming pool as its mother and a sibling helplessly looked on, ultimately getting an assist from one of the homeowners.
"Honestly, one of the wildest, sweetest and most unforgettable things we've ever witnessed," Janelle Martin, who also lives in the Magnolia, Texas, home, said in an Instagram post on the incident, which occurred in June.
Video shows the panicked deer swimming in the pool, evading the man trying to pull her from the water, as momma deer paces in the yard around the pool. Finally, he gets hold of the small animal — "It's OK, baby. It's OK. It's OK," he says — and releases it outside the pool as it loudly squawks.
"The noises that baby made absolutely shocked us — I had no idea fawns could cry like that," Martin wrote.
On exiting the water, the fawn stumbles and ultimately runs toward a wooded area, its mom close behind.
Martin had a more recent encounter in her yard with a deer and its young, and she wondered whether they were the animals involved in the prior incident. They watched her as she watched and filmed them for nearly a minute.
"Whether these two were 'ours' or not, they reminded me how much beauty there is in simply slowing down long enough to notice what's around us," she wrote in a separate Instagram post on the more recent sighting. "Sometimes the sweetest moments are the ones we never planned for."
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