Another wildlife adventure

[turbosat]

Today I had a 600-700 .lb black visitor from the next door neighbors' farm-a hefty young bull! While I went into town at lunch, this big-footed bovine trotted around my yard, MY DISHES, the flower gardens, and the vegetable garden. He'd gotten out about a week before and came through the yard , saw the tracks then, but never saw the animal. Observant as I am, I missed the tracks today by the dog's water bowl outside, but I did notice the bowl was half-empty. Since only birds are around to drink from it now, I thought that was very unusual, hehe. Then I noticed the tracks.
About 5pm the thing came out of the woods and right toward my mom and me while we were checking out the flowerbeds. (She had the water can, which it took for a food-can I suppose and headed towards her). He walked around and I shooed him back into the farm he came from-he knew where the break in the fence was, I didn't. Then about 745 tonight he came back. But this time the owner was not far behind him, trying to gather him up and get him home. Thankfully, he followed the man, and got locked up in the barn. Sorry, no pictures, when you're running a cattle around you don't think about cameras, I had no rope either-totally unprepared for cow-catching. Life in the country!

 

[Tron]

I hope none of your dishes are painted red!

Also, do you have one of those cute red LNBFs?

 

[B.J.]

Escaped cattle got into my yards twice. Two houses ago, one came through, and the only noteworthy thing it did was get tangled up in a volleyball net I had up in the yard, and pretty much destroyed that. I wasn't home to see that. The 2nd time at my last home, 2 or 3 young steers got loose from a field across the street. I had a collie who had never been around cattle or sheep or anything, and somehow the herding instinct came out in him. He took out after those things, and "seemed" to herd them right back through the open fence they had escaped through. I say seemed, because it was probably just because he scared them and they ran home, but it sure looked like he was herding them. After they were back in their field, my dog came back all proud of himself.

 

[turbosat]

This one was a very nice young bull, haha, he had been bottle-fed by its owner (its mother had rejected it after it was born) so it was very tame. He tried rubbing his head on a bush in the front yard , and was breaking off big branches. When I yelled at him, he would stop and shake his head at me though, he had some short horns but wasn't really very aggressive.
He managed to walk between my 7.5 dish and my motorized ku without knocking them over!
I do have one of those red lnbs too but he must not have been upset by it, lol.
Today I'll have to take the wheelbarrow and dirt to fix all the big hoofprints he made. It has rained so much lately here every bit of ground is still just saturated.