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This was in our hometown newspaper, probably had a mountain lion chasing it
HARLAN -- A little after 5 a.m. Tuesday morning, May 14, Bob and Lois Mortensen woke to what they first thought must be thunder. But a crash then came that made Lois believe that this was not simply a spring storm.
Lois quickly jumped out of bed and was awestricken by what she would see next -- a three-foot deer standing in the small guest bedroom of their home at 1305 Country Club Drive.
She said when she got to the door of the bedroom the deer was standing between the bed and the dresser, but she never saw the face of the deer. She said it was probably a female because the deer didn't have any antlers.
"I shut the door right away, afraid that it would turn around," Lois Mortensen said.
After she shut the door, Mortensen decided she should call 911.
She said she thought the responders would have to tranquilize the animal, but when they arrived, the deer was gone.
Once Mortensen knew the deer was gone, she went inside to see the damage the deer had left behind.
The deer had jumped through the closed, double pane, bay window, just east of the entrance to their home.
"The screen from the window is all twisted up," Mortensen said.
The deer kicked in part of the bedroom closet with what appeared to be its hoof. The wooden frame of a bed that belonged to Mortensen's mother was also damaged. Blood, dirt and deer hair were on the the walls, the carpet, a quilt and on the curtains in the room.
Mortensen, who has lived in her home for the past 17 years, said she had never seen a deer in her yard or on the golf course before.
"People just can't hardly believe it," she said. "Thank goodness she went out the same window she went in."
