B.C. man rescues otter trapped in pool using 'legendary' log

The otter had become trapped in a nearly empty pool at the beach house the family was renting for a reunion.

“There’s an otter in the pool,” Theo says, recalling the message he received on his phone. “We’ve got to get it out.”

So he headed straight to the oceanside house his family was renting for a reunion and discovered a river otter in the bottom of the near-empty pool. The animal had brought a fish to eat in the deep end before realizing there was no way to climb back out.

“Obviously we’re going to have to get this otter out of the pool,” Theo thought, watching the animal swimming around the shallow water and attempting to scale the steep walls. “It shouldn’t be that hard. That’s what I figured.”

Theo is a search and rescue volunteer who has helped save countless people.

But this, it turns out, was “otterly” different.

First, they attempted to entice the otter into the net of a pool-scoop.

“It was trying and then it was swimming around, and then it was trying and then it was swimming over to the fish,” Theo says.

They passed on the pool scoop and implemented an “otter” plan.