Two men were fishing Panguitch Lake in Utah and noticed a fawn lying on the dangerously thin ice struggling unsuccessfully to get its footing. So, they threw caution to the wind and decided to rescue the helpless deer.
“We knew the ice was thin but decided to chance it anyway,” Bransen Jackson wrote in the video description. “We walked over nice and slow so we didn’t scare or frighten it any more. I picked up the deer and gently walked it over to the shore and released it.”
Upon setting hooves on firm ground, the deer scrambled up the hillside no worse for wear.
And, luckily, the man shooting the video survived a near fall when he slipped on the ice as they approached the shore.
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No word how the fishermen did fishing that recent day at the lake that features some of the state’s largest rainbow trout.
