OKLAHOMA CITY — Think it’s hard for firefighters to rescue a cat in a tree?

Try a cow in a swimming pool.

Firefighters in Oklahoma City were summoned Sunday morning after a homeowner reported hearing some sort of ‘‘snorting’’ coming from his swimming pool area.

Emergency responders arrived and discovered a hole in the swimming pool’s liner and a cow trapped in the water.

Oklahoma City Fire Department Battalion Chief Benny Fulkerson said firefighters used their pumps to remove about 5 feet of water from the pool so the cow wouldn’t experience hypothermia.

Crews then brought in a wrecker to hoist the nearly 1,500-pound animal from the pool and to safety.

Fulkerson said the cow appeared to be uninjured after its ordeal.

In Southern California, officials said a juvenile sea lion was so happy to be rescued after getting hooked by fishing gear in the Pacific that it jumped into a Coast Guard boat.

The Coast Guard said a Los Angeles-area crew on patrol pulled the sea lion free Saturday near Newport Harbor.

A little persuasion, the sea lion hopped aboard the boat and posed for photos, officials said.

The animal was handed off to a crew from the Pacific Marine Mammal Center, which brought the sea lion to its rescue facility. It will be rehabilitated and released.

Associated Press