Lance Clark of Prince Rupert, B.C., took his two dogs, Gino and Mya, out for their routine stroll. After a while, Clark let the pug and Rhodesian ridgeback off their leashes.
Right away, they "took off into the bushes," Clark wrote on Facebook.
Then, things hit the fan.
"Next thing I see is Mya and Gino, running out of the bushes 40 feet ahead of me with a medium sized deer in hot pursuit."
Looking to stop the chase, Clark, who has a broken wrist, called his dogs back to him — but the deer followed right behind.
"The dogs kept running right past me, and I started waving my one good arm in the air," the pet owner wrote. "I didn't think the deer was going to stop running towards me, [but] it veered off into the bushes [mere] feet from me."
Seconds later, the deer came charging back and chased Mya down the street. The pug had stopped to wait for Clark, but the bigger dog was nowhere in sight.
Clark hopped in his car and started searching for Mya, running into neighbours who said they'd seen the pair tearing across town. One woman even took a quick video of the chase. (Watch above.)
Eventually, the dog somehow managed to ditch the deer and make it home on her own, safe and sound.
"I take the dogs quite regularly for walks at night, and we see deer all over the place. We get them in our front yard, backyard, everywhere," he told HuffPost B.C. over the phone.
"I'm really wondering now what my dogs will do the next time around," he said.
A family of deer turn to the camera as the sun sets on Dunwich Heath in Suffolk, UK. (credit:Oli Moorman/500px)
deer(04 of20)
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Deer in the morning sun (credit:Alain Carels/500px)
Here's a Wink Deer :)(05 of20)
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It's a happy feeling when a photograph comes out decent; it's even better when everything falls into place and you get the perfect wink :) (credit:Gaurav Bathla/500px)
Deers(06 of20)
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Deers (credit:Mohammad Abdul Tariq/500px)
Deer Stag(07 of20)
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Alert Stag (credit:Rohit Varma/500px)
Watching you!(08 of20)
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EL SALVADOR-ANIMALS-DEER-ZOO(09 of20)
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A couple of chital deer (Axis axis) and their two-month offspring are seen at the National Zoo of El Salvador, in San Salvador, on March 16, 2015. The fawn is the first to be born at the National Zoo and will be visible to the public from today on. AFP PHOTO / Marvin RECINOS (Photo credit should read Marvin RECINOS/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:MARVIN RECINOS via Getty Images)
Snowy Deer(10 of20)
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Thank you for posing, Mrs. Deer. (credit:Stephen Ransom/500px)
Exmoor Stag(11 of20)
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Taken at Dunkery Beacon, Exmoor. Light conditions were pretty poor today with very thick fog, but happy with this shot of a Red Deer stag. (credit:Dulcie Mae/500px)
Spotted Deer(12 of20)
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Spotted Deer, Taken at Kabini (credit:nara simhan/500px)
oh deer(13 of20)
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deer of some kind in a park (credit:Christoph Kuchowsky/500px)
Deer in herbs(14 of20)
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A young deer strolling around in urban forest patches near home, looked very nice and scampered away quickly afterwards. (credit:Guilhem /500px)
The solitary survivor (for the moment)(15 of20)
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Cervus elaphus (credit:Thomas Zumbiehl/500px)
Lonely Deer(16 of20)
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Lonely deer in Poland.If You like it, share it! :) (credit:Patryk Pociecha/500px)
the model(17 of20)
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Spotted Deer(18 of20)
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Deer, photographer(19 of20)
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I Saw What You Did There...: Great Smoky Mtns.(20 of20)
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