A deer broke into a Wisconsin home while the owners were away and spent two days trapped in the house’s basement.
A Grand Chute resident called 911 on Monday and reported a deer had apparently crashed through the window of a neighbor’s home and appeared to be trapped in the basement.
The home’s residents were out of town at the time, officials said.
Police contacted local company NuisancePro to help remove the deer, which is believed to have been trapped in the basement for about two days.
“We actually netted it, and we were going to use a blanket, but the animal had been in there a couple days, so it was a little bit tired out, and we were able to just grab on to it by hand and take it out,” Nathan Seelow, owner and operator of NuisancePro, told WLUK-TV.
Seelow said the deer was released back into the wild. The animal did not appear to be seriously injured, but it left the home’s basement in disarray.
“It’s a mess. Glass and poop everywhere,” Seelow said.
A similar situation unfolded just a couple of weeks earlier in Walker, Mich., when police were called to remove a deer from inside a home.
“Despite their efforts to get the deer out over two days — it seemed to be enjoying a stay indoors & refused to come up from the basement,” Walker police wrote on social media.
Officers were eventually able to use a catch pole and a broom to guide the deer up the stairs and out of the home.
