--- title: Video: Deer Loves Belly Rubs description: This fawn cries when it doesn't get enough belly rubs canonical: https://time.com/3069996/deer-loves-belly-rubs/ author: Olivia B. 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Waxman Staff Writer Aug 1, 2014 2:37 PM UTC A video going viral on [Reddit](http://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/2cam7l/baby%5Fdeer%5Fcries%5Fevery%5Ftime%5Fit%5Ftries%5Fto%5Fbe%5Fput%5Fdown/) shows Justin Lewis, an electric company lineman from Kentucky, cradling a fawn and giving it belly rubs. The young deer squealed whenever he stopped. As he wrote on [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/juxtinlewis08/posts/805267529506623), “momma deer was watching from the hillside. The fawn was following us around the job site, so we carried it up the hillside and he left with his mother.” **WATCH:** [Deer Essentially Falls from the Sky and Crushes a Car](http://time.com/137766/deer-falls-from-overpass-crushes-car/) **MORE:** [Deer Gets Basketball Stuck in Antlers](http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/10/11/sporty-deer-gets-basketball-stuck-in-antlers/) **WATCH:** [Hovercraft Rescues Deer Stranded on Frozen Lake](http://newsfeed.time.com/2014/02/13/watch-hovercraft-rescues-deer-stranded-on-frozen-lake/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3069996/deer-loves-belly-rubs/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3069996/deer-loves-belly-rubs/"},"headline":"Adorable Deer Cries When You Stop Petting His Belly","datePublished":"2014-08-01T14:37:40.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:12:06.458Z","description":"But watch what happens when he tries to stop","url":"https://time.com/3069996/deer-loves-belly-rubs/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. 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