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Otter caught swimming in Vancouver woman’s backyard pool

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Otter captured swimming in Vancouver backyard pool
Video shared by Jasmine Sallay-Carrington shows an otter swimming in her backyard pool near Jericho Beach in Vancouver – May 5, 2020

Vancouver residents are no stranger to hearing about otters swimming in ponds, but one woman in Kitsilano caught one swimming in her backyard pool.

Jasmine Sallay-Carrington was working from home near Jericho Beach on Tuesday when she heard her sister yell about the little creature paddling around.

Grabbing her phone to record, Sallay-Carrington looked out and saw the animal twisting and turning in the water, and going behind the stairs and looking out at her.

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“We heard some people outside the hedge yelling and that’s when we think it was crossing the street,” Sallay-Carrington told Global News. “Then one of the dogs started barking.”

She said when the otter got out of the pool after a few minutes, it scurried under the gate before it crossed the street going south, away from the ocean.

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It was the first time she’d seen it, but her family thinks it may have been living in a nearby bush that was recently trimmed, which may have agitated the animal.

“We’re a little bit worried and we hope it’s OK,” she said.

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