Watch: Dog jumps in water to save baby deer from drowning

The video shows the dog named Storm pushing the deer to the shore, lying next to it and nudging it with his nose.

A dog that saw a baby deer in danger of drowning in New York jumped in and dragged it to shore.

Screengrab from the video uploaded by the dog’s owner Mark Freeley on Facebook. (Facebook/Mark Freeley)

The daring rescue in Long Island Sound was caught on video by his owner Mark Freeley.

He told TV channels that he was taking the English golden retriever named Storm on a walk on Sunday morning when Storm “just plunged into the water and started swimming out to the fawn, grabbed it by the neck, and started swimming to shore.”

The video shows Storm pushing the deer to shore, lying next to the fawn and nudging it with his nose.

Freeley says animal rescuers soon arrived and the deer ran back into the water. They used a rope to pull the fawn back in.

The fawn is recovering at an animal rescue centre.