Penny Price said she and her family initially watched as the little buck stared at them through the window and then collapsed

A northern Wisconsin woman welcomed a deer into her home after seeing it struggling in her backyard during Sunday's severe weather. In a message posted to Facebook, Penny Price said she and her family initially watched as the little buck stared at them through the window and then collapsed. That's when she ran outside and carried the animal into the warmth of the family home and wrapped him in towels. "He appeared to have an injured leg," Penny Price told WISN 12 NEWS. "I'm not sure if it was an injury or a side effect of the weather."By Monday, the buck had been given a name by Price's sons: Giannis, in honor of the Milwaukee Bucks star. Video Price shared shows how weak the animal remained, but Price said that he was able to eat corn and take sugar water and applesauce through a syringe. "here is no DNR violation to keep an animal and try to rehabilitate until it can be brought to rehabilitation center," Price wrote on Facebook. "I am not planning to keep as a pet."Price ultimately contact the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, who took Giannis away. She said the family hopes that Giannis has a good outcome."The DNR told us they didn't know if he could be rehabilitated, and I told him I didn't want to know the outcome, just in case they didn't choose to rehabilitate him," she told WISN 12 NEWS. "Apparently he was considered a bit old to ever be fully rehabilitated, and some times they only take very young fawns."

A northern Wisconsin woman welcomed a deer into her home after seeing it struggling in her backyard during Sunday's severe weather.

In a message posted to Facebook, Penny Price said she and her family initially watched as the little buck stared at them through the window and then collapsed. That's when she ran outside and carried the animal into the warmth of the family home and wrapped him in towels.


"He appeared to have an injured leg," Penny Price told WISN 12 NEWS. "I'm not sure if it was an injury or a side effect of the weather."

By Monday, the buck had been given a name by Price's sons: Giannis, in honor of the Milwaukee Bucks star.

Video Price shared shows how weak the animal remained, but Price said that he was able to eat corn and take sugar water and applesauce through a syringe.

"[T]here is no DNR violation to keep an animal and try to rehabilitate until it can be brought to rehabilitation center," Price wrote on Facebook. "I am not planning to keep as a pet."

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Price ultimately contact the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, who took Giannis away. She said the family hopes that Giannis has a good outcome.

"The DNR told us they didn't know if he could be rehabilitated, and I told him I didn't want to know the outcome, just in case they didn't choose to rehabilitate him," she told WISN 12 NEWS. "Apparently he was considered a bit old to ever be fully rehabilitated, and some times they only take very young fawns."