He escaped from his pasture (still don't know where, when or who's) sometime last night/early morning and made his way up to the end of our street which is a dead end. Our neighbors up there have a small pasture with three horses. He couldn't get in their pen so he made himself comfortable right outside and fell asleep. Our neighbor's husband discovered him early this morning and tried to corral him while they waited for animal control. Our street is about one block from the highway so they didn't want him to go too far. Well he got spooked, charged at them, and they gave up! He made his way through almost everyone's lawn until finally the city police, county sherriff, and animal control all came to barricade him on our street. They had a trailor and tried using horses to herd him inside, police sirens to spook him inside, everything! Finally he made his way back up to the original neighbor's house, JUMPED the fence to the pasture and from there animal control had no choice but to tranquilize him.
That's when I showed up. My mom and I took her camera and made our way up the street to watch the excitment. The bull was awake but groggy and they could NOT get him into the trailor. He was lying next to it and they had ropes around him trying to pull him in. They couldn't get him so they tied the ropes to a truck and tried to drag him in. That didn't work either. Finally one of the cops TASERED the poor bull and guess what...he didn't even flinch! We left and eventually they got him up around 2pm and in the trailor.
It was definitely not how we had planned to spend our morning/afternoon but exciting nonetheless! We got some great pics too!
after the tranquilizer...groggy and would NOT get up!
"livestock enforcement" haha
all the cops...
notice the one on the horse complete with cowboy hat :)
you know you're in texas when...!
Happy Friday!
xo, Lynds
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