An adorable Goldendoodle is being hailed a hero, after his quick-thinking saved a drowning baby deer from a lake. The 6-year-old dog, left his owner speechless, when he embraced the water to rescue the helpless fawn. After he brought the tiny creature to safety, from the middle of the lake to dry land, the heroic dog kept looking after her. The incredible moments have been caught on video by the dog’s owner!
A few months ago, Ralph Dorn and his beloved dog Harley, went for a walk in the back of their house in Virginia. But in a matter of minutes, their routine turned into a dramatic rescue, with Harley the main character. The dog spotted a tiny creature struggling to keep her head afloat, and immediately jumped into the lake to rescue her.
“He was near the middle of the lake herding a little fawn back to the shore line,” Harley’s owner wrote in a now viral Facebook post. “Not sure how the fawn got out there, but Harley obviously didn’t ask why, he just jumped into action.”
But the caring dog not only he managed to save the deer and bring her on shore, but he also stayed next to her to comfort her for a few more minutes. Once on dry land, the fawn eventually reunited her mother.
“Harley didn’t want to leave the baby deer,” the man told PEOPLE. “He just kept interacting with it, licking it, caring for it.”
But that’s not the end of the story, though, because Dorn and his wife Pat were both surprised to see their furry companion as he met again with the fawn he just rescued!
