--- 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. Waxman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-08-01T14:37:40.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:12:06.458Z og:title: Adorable Deer Cries When You Stop Petting His Belly og:description: He really likes to be held og:url: https://time.com/3069996/deer-loves-belly-rubs/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Adorable Deer Cries When You Stop Petting His Belly twitter:description: He really likes to be held twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Adorable Deer Cries When You Stop Petting His Belly  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Aug 1, 2014 2:37 PM UTC  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. 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. Waxman","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3069996/deer-loves-belly-rubs/","name":"Adorable Deer Cries When You Stop Petting His Belly"}}]}] ```