{"id":286485,"date":"2025-11-12T02:35:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T02:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/286485\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T02:35:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T02:35:09","slug":"brawling-deer-smash-through-window-into-denver-basement-exercise-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/286485\/","title":{"rendered":"Brawling Deer Smash Through Window Into Denver Basement Exercise Room"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two mule deer bucks were brawling so hard with each other, they tumbled into a window well and crashed\u00a0through\u00a0the plate glass into the basement exercise room of a suburban Denver home.<\/p>\n

The raucous incident happened at about 12:30 a.m. Sunday, in Roxborough Park, a semi-rural neighborhood adjacent to a Colorado state park of the same name, according to reports.<\/p>\n

After the befuddled homeowner called for help, Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) agents showed up and shot the bucks with tranquilizer darts.<\/p>\n

The zonked-out deer, which apparently suffered only minor cuts, were too much for CPW personnel to move, so firefighters from West Metro Fire Rescue were\u00a0brought\u00a0in to assist.<\/p>\n

The deer were taken back outside, tagged by CPW, and released, West Metro reported.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not the first time that deer have broken into a suburban Colorado home.<\/p>\n

In 2022, a mule deer buck tried fighting his own reflection in\u00a0a\u00a0plate glass window in Colorado Springs. He crashed through the glass and was discovered\u00a0chilling in the basement<\/a>\u00a0home office.<\/p>\n

That deer was also tranquilized by CPW, hauled outside and released.<\/p>\n

Mating Season Battle<\/p>\n

It\u2019s likely that the bucks were sparring because this is the time of year for the mule deer rut, or mating season.<\/p>\n

Deer and other wildlife are common in the Roxborough area, West Metro spokeswoman Ronda Scholting told Cowboy State Daily.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a subdivision with a wildland-urban interface,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

West Metro has been involved with other animal rescues there, including saving dogs, horses or deer that had fallen through ice, she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe haven\u2019t pulled a deer out of somebody\u2019s basement before, as far as I know,\u201d Scholting said.<\/p>\n

Firefighters used a \u201cMegaMover\u201d to get the tranquilized bucks out of the house, she said.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s essentially a large, reinforced canvas tarp, with grip handles along the sides. Firefighters slid it underneath each deer in turn, grabbed the handles and gently carried the animals out, she said.<\/p>\n

Biologist Not Surprised<\/p>\n

Retired wildlife biologist Franz Camenzind of Jackson told Cowboy State Daily that he wasn\u2019t entirely shocked to hear about rutting bucks crashing through a window.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m sorry that happened, but I\u2019m not surprised,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

When bucks fight during the rut to determine who gets to mate with female deer, they\u2019re not playing around, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s serious business for them,\u201d Camenzind said.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s even possible that the bucks saw their own reflections in the glass and got confused over who to butt heads with, he added.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt gets pretty ugly sometimes, when the gonads migrate to the brain,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Deer might be drawn to places such as subdivisions because there\u2019s less chance of large predators being there, Camenzind said.<\/p>\n

However, it\u2019s still a case of humans building homes in wildlife habitat. And that can lead to conflicts and weird mishaps, like deer crashing through windows, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we\u2019re living in their habitat and they are adjusting to our situations, and they are riled up or panicked, it shouldn\u2019t surprise us when things like this happen,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Mark Heinz can be reached at mark@cowboystatedaily.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two mule deer bucks were brawling so hard with each other, they tumbled into a window well and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286486,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":{"0":"post-286485","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}