{"id":642859,"date":"2026-10-27T14:28:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T14:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/642859\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T14:28:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T14:28:17","slug":"police-and-homeowner-pull-deer-out-of-backyard-pool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/642859\/","title":{"rendered":"Police and homeowner pull deer out of backyard pool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The two used a large strap to pull the buck out, and it ran away, apparently uninjured.<\/p>\n<p>A homeowner and police officer joined forces in North Saanich on Friday to rescue a deer that was unable to free itself from a backyard swimming pool.<\/p>\n<p>The Sidney\/North Saanich RCMP officer and homeowner used a large strap to pull the buck out, police said. Once the deer was free, it ran off with no apparent injuries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThankfully, the deer was safely removed from the pool and was able to continue on its way,\u201d said Const. Benje Bartley.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timescolonist.com\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection\" class=\"__cf_email__\" data-cfemail=\"b8d2daddd4d4f8ccd1d5ddcbdbd7d4d7d6d1cbcc96dbd7d5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">[email\u00a0protected]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The two used a large strap to pull the buck out, and it ran away, apparently uninjured. A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":642860,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[111,139,69,147,406],"class_list":["post-642859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=642859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/642860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}