A deer was freed after it was trapped in a swimming pool under the pool’s cover for over 18 hours in Lake Barrington Sunday. | Provided Photos
By Sam Borcia | Lake & McHenry County Scanner
A non-profit organization says a deer is improving after she became stuck in a pool with extremely cold water for almost an entire day in Lake Barrington Sunday.
Flint Creek Wildlife Rehabilitation said Monday that they were contacted Sunday evening regarding a deer that had fallen into a covered swimming pool filled with water.
The organization is a licensed non-profit wildlife rehabilitation center based in Barrington that cares for injured and orphaned wildlife.
The homeowners first saw the hole in the pool cover Sunday morning but did not realize a deer had actually fallen through the cover and was in the water.
The homeowners later discovered that a deer was in the water and removed the cover.
The deer, which was estimated to be in the water for over 18 hours, crawled out of the pool at the residence.
“Given that nighttime temperatures have been in the 30s, the water temperature had to be extremely cold for the deer to have been in the water that length of time,” Flint Creek Wildlife said.
A worker with the non-profit went to the Lake Barrington residence and treated the doe for shock and possible aspiration.
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