This Evening, Doe Struggled to Stay Afloat as Swollen Mattole River Carried Her Downstream

About 4:45 this evening, Laura Lasseter took her camera out to film the swollen Mattole River for her kids. “It has come up 6-8 feet or more in the past few days,” she explained.

As she was capturing footage, a doe popped out of the water midstream. “She looks to have been underwater at the rapids when I [started] filming then she just popped up,” Lasseter told us.

“The timing to actually get that just still amazes me!” she exclaimed.

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Ullr Rover
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Ullr Rover
5 years ago

Deer are amazingly strong swimmers.

Jaekelopterus
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Jaekelopterus
5 years ago
Reply to  Ullr Rover

They are. I’ve seen them swimming from Eureka to Indian Island in nearly freezing temperatures.

R -DOG
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R -DOG
5 years ago
Reply to  Ullr Rover

Hell of a way to get away from BIGFOOT

onlooker
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onlooker
5 years ago

I hope she made it out of the river.

TQM
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TQM
5 years ago
Reply to  onlooker

I think she did – the person making the video was saying Yay! Yay! toward the end.

Lynn H
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Lynn H
5 years ago

Wow, yes, what amazing timing! And still some people don’t believe in miracles… Thank you for sharing Laura. Good steady hands there too, I would have lost it. Poor girl, glad she got out, thanks for saying “yay”, it was hard to see at that point. Was that a yearling or this year’s fawn do you think?

Lost Croat Outburst
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Lost Croat Outburst
5 years ago
Reply to  Lynn H

Maybe a yearling. Way too early for this year’s fawn crop in May and June. A young fawn probably would not have made it.

Willie Caso-Mayhem
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5 years ago

🕯👍🏾👍🏾

TracyF
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TracyF
5 years ago

That’s some footage! Thank you for sharing, wow!

SourTangant
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SourTangant
5 years ago

Thank you for sharing!! Talk about right time right place. So glad you said “yay” or I wouldn’t have know she got out.

guest
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guest
5 years ago

That deer’s gonna have a story to tell… what an adventure!

Orange Sunshine
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Orange Sunshine
5 years ago

Cool video with a happy ending. However, being January and all, how do they know it is a doe? Most bucks have lost their antlers by now.

Wabbajack
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Wabbajack
5 years ago

Because it wasn’t hollering obscenities? (That is supposed to be a joke, sort of)

buck it
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buck it
5 years ago

a 2×2 was hanging out ignoring me with both antlers, just two weeks ago. If a buck with antlers went into the river there, he’d probably pop out without them!

Guest
Guest
Guest
5 years ago

The narration is so sweet. It was an amazing video. Thanks for posting.

Hz
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Hz
5 years ago

glad she got out…I was worried about those long legs breaking on rocks :0{

Willie caos- mayhem
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5 years ago

🕯Know matter what its nature at best.

guest
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guest
5 years ago

Sometimes deer cross streams on their own and other times to escape dogs that are chasing them. Tie your damn dogs up!

Lost Croat Outburst
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Lost Croat Outburst
5 years ago
Reply to  guest

Yeah, loose dog packs really suck. One of the first homestead fantasies to go: wow, man, we can just turn the dog(s) loose man, no problem way out here. Our dog won’t hunt anyway.

Great video!

Al
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Al
5 years ago

Good job deer.

ol' Homesteader
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ol' Homesteader
5 years ago

When I was a kid in Marin up on Spanish Trail we would watch Deer swim across the bay from Tiburon to Angel Island …. they sometimes were in groups

Joe
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Joe
5 years ago

Awesome video! Thank you.