A police officer stepped in to help a frightened baby deer and touched hearts in the process. The woman demonstrated concern, love and gentleness for the animal, which was in a dangerous position. Watch the short and tear-jerking clip to see the officer’s heartwarming actions.

Law enforcement officers regularly put their safety and lives in danger. They are often some of the first people on the scene when a horrible, tragic incident happens. When others run away from the scene, they approach it to offer help and assistance.

Officers can never know how any given day on the job will go. What kind of calls will come over the radio? To what situation will they be called to respond? It could be anything and everything, or it could be something they happen to encounter themselves. That was the case in one powerful and moving video posted on YouTube.

A police officer in Ohio noticed a baby deer lying on the side of the road.  Instead of driving by and going about her day, she stopped and showed concern for the tiny animal’s well-being. The video begins with the officer talking to the Department of Natural Resources to ask how to best handle the situation and what she should do with the deer. She decided it was best to remove the small deer from its present location, which was just off to the side of a busy highway.

The video captures the kind and caring officer physically picking up the deer. The animal is unsure about the situation and about this person approaching it. Still, the officer reassures it, treating the animal tenderly and with much care as she picks it up and puts it in a much safer location.

“This thing is adorable!” the officer says as she holds the deer.

Genesis 1:21 “And God created great whales, and every living creature that moves, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.”