CAMBRIDGE (AP) – A Cambridge family was minding its business at home when a deer bounded through a parlor window, hurdling a sofa and scrambling through the home before being wrestled into a bathroom and locked in.

The 100-pound doe smashed the window Thursday night but somehow managed not to upset any of the heirlooms and antiques in the home, said Lori Cunningham.

“It’s gone and we’re stuck with a really big mess,” she said Friday afternoon as her husband, Matthew, went about replacing the window.

Matthew Cunningham didn’t know what kind of animal it was, but he struggled with the creature to get it away from his 4-year-old son. Once it was in the bathroom, the deer settled down underneath a pedestal sink and next to a radiator.

Cunningham enlisted a neighbor to get the deer back outside after the couple learned wardens planned to wait until the following morning to respond.

They held used a piece of plywood to try to direct the deer out of the bathroom and through another window in the home office.

The deer tried to crawl under the office desk but eventually escaped through the window only to run in front of an 18-wheeler on Route 150. The couple heard the squeal of the truck’s brakes, but the deer kept on running to safety.

“It was really scary,” Lori Cunningham said. “We’re so lucky no one got hurt.”

Her son, Zeke, was frightened and confused by the episode.

“He was in shock,” she said. “He was wondering why there was a reindeer in our house. He said, ‘It’s not Christmas.”‘

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