Two deer fell in my pool!
Two deer fell in my pool!!
For those of you who don’t know I have two lovely dogs. Sierra and Tiger you can find them with me on some of my advertising. Those are beautiful dogs is what I normally hear, well today there names are mud!!
I had just finished spending a boat load of money on back to school shopping and was ready to finish my projects in my office when my kids started saying things like “There is a deer in the pool!!”
Well hears the story the dogs are good at being somewhat of our fire alarms for deer they know to just bark and run. So they probably just started doing there job, that’s why we feed them to chase stuff off your property. Well the two deer chased a mom and a baby. (Insert Bambi and its mommy comment hear) And they must have chased them towards the house and doing the put the mom and baby in the pool.
While my kids and I tried to herd her out of the pool I couldn’t help while watching the mom swim in circles with her baby seems so sad and familiar, Knowing she wants out so bad but having no tools to do it with. I called animal control, put a pool cover on the side for her to clime out on even put a rope around her neck to pull her out (Deer’s are surprisingly strong even in the water) but nothing seemed to work. We managed to get the baby close enough to pull out leaving the mother to continue to tread water alone and scared the baby stayed there true to her and waited fatefully.
Watching her swim made my heart sink and mad at the same time. She just had to calm down and she could get out that’s all I kept thinking. But she kept scratching at the sides and not making any progress. Somehow I feel like that especially that day, trying so hard to stay afloat and not lose sight of my kids. Knowing if something doesn’t happen soon my true self will sink and fall into bad habits like laziness with my clients, self destructively changing my regular schedule and just plane self doubted.
Eventually for what seemed like an hour that was actually 20 the baby move only about 10 feet away almost saying should I go? Are you going to just stay there and swim? She crawled up the side and out. (Not using the pool cover) It was almost as if she knew her family had given up and she had better do something. Off she went leaving my pool and teaching me the lesson of persistent for survival. I didn’t mention that my pool was a doughboy pool and with all that scratching it went from a home with a pool to a home without a pool in about 30 mins. But not without its lessons for the homeowner.
In the market the way it is now you find yourself trending a lot of water knowing your family is right there beside you. But getting out of a bad situation is your job and first you need to calm down keep your family close. Next look for people that put down a pool cover for you. They are there to help.