Olathe animal control officer praised for saving small deer trapped in 12-foot drain

A deer’s rescue from a sewer drain is capturing hearts and earning praise for a metro animal control officer.

Olathe Animal Control helped save the doe, which they believe had been trapped for days.

Nadya Dibenedetto often walks her dogs along a grassy path in her Olathe neighborhood near 146th and Halsey. But Sunday, she and her husband’s dogs started acting strange.

“One of our dogs pulled her toward this manhole,” Igor Sorkin said.

The manhole’s cover was missing, and a little deer was trapped inside.

“She was all kinds of freaked out by the whole thing. She’s like, ‘This little baby deer is trapped and I can’t help it,'” Sorkin said.

They called animal control, and Officer James Brackett arrived.

“I wouldn’t have found it because it’s kind of just in a field north of a little lake out there,” said Brackett with Olathe Animal Control.

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