PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • January 24, 2024
An 80-pound doe smashed a 9-inch by 12-inch pane of glass in a ground-level cellar window basement in Westbrook and somehow squeezed its way through, dropping about 6 feet to the concrete floor. Scott Lindsay, a wildlife biologist with the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, and Warden Steve Milton used a dart to sedate the animal before he and Milton loaded it onto a tarp, carried it up the stairs and through Cadigan’s living room to his truck. Lindsay drove the deer to a nearby farm – he had asked the owner, whom he knows, for permission – and placed it on a blanket to keep it warm until it woke up. When Lindsay returned to the farm Wednesday morning to check on the deer, it was standing about 100 yards away. It stared at him for a few moments before turning and entering a wooded area off Stroudwater Street.