Heartwarming moment a farmer rescues one-day-old deer after it got stuck overnight in a deep rabbit hole
Pete Wesley and his wife Jane, 55, were doing their morning rounds in Sleaford, Lincolnshire, when they spotted the mother deer and then realised her fawn had fallen into the burrow.
After a minute of struggling, Mr Wesley managed to haul the baby animal out of the hole by its neck and reunited it with its mother, where it fed for half an hour.
Farmer Pete Wesley, pictured, spotted the young fawn stuck in a rabbit hole in Sleaford, Lincolnshire
The fawn’s mother stood away from Mr Wesley, carefully monitoring the ongoing situation
Mr Wesley said the tiny deer ‘wouldn’t have been able to get itself out of the hole on its own, it was well stuck.
‘It couldn’t have stood up in the hole so its only way out was how I pulled it out, which it wouldn’t have been able to do under its own strength, even if the mum had tried to help.
After a bit of coaxing, the fawn was freed seemingly unharmed and was reunited with its mother
Mr Wesley, pictured with his wife, Jane, said she was the the person who spotted the deer
‘This is the first time I’ve ever had to rescue an animal from a rabbit hole and we’ve been farming deer since 1994.