The Olwine family of Maryland found a few unexpected party guests enjoying the backyard pool the other day:
Bob Olwine saw them walk down the steps and descend into four feet of water.
"They probably just figured it was a small pond and they could swim across," says Brian Eyler, a deer biologist with the Maryland Department of Natural Resources. "I've heard of deer getting stuck in pools before, but don't know anyone who actually saw them walk in."
Bob Olwine did.
He was pretty amazed by the whole thing.
And even more amazed when, in the next instant, three smaller deer showed up and pawed and clawed their way under the fence in an attempt to get into the pool area. They apparently wanted to go swimming, too.
hug along leisurely throughout the day, making the water cleaner and taking some of the workload from the filter, made us think that this might be a good summer present for our pool -- and for the normal maintenance crew
Posted by: Flour Mill | April 06, 2011 at 01:52 AM
Dear Admin,
I was reading your website http://indianhillmediaworks.typepad.com/pooltalk/2007/10/deer-in-marylan.html
Great information!
I noticed your link to https://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/pubs/chdrown.html returns an error (maybe the site is down, or the post has been removed).
See if it makes sense to replace the broken link with:
http://www.swartzlaw.com/unintentional-drowning-facts-statistics-and-prevention.html
You can see the error in this screenshot:
http://i.imgur.com/7ivLRu7.png
Either way, Great work!
Best regards,
Neel
Posted by: Neel inviko | March 27, 2017 at 01:07 AM