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We don't know how it got there. The bull certainly wasn't going to tell us. It just stood there and chewed its cud, staring at us.
We noticed it this morning as we were leaving for a day trip to the next town north, Minas. On the way out, Cesar noticed a bovine on the wrong side of the fence. Occasionally, if we leave the main gate open, a cow will come in to browse the otherwise untouched grass at the beginning of our driveway. This bull was in the wrong area though - inside our fence. Closer inspection revealed that the wire fence had actually been opened. Considering that bovines lack the intelligence and equipment to open fences (this part of the fence has a complicated wire latch that was beyond my ken to figure out how to open - I didn't even know it was a gate at first), it is not a leap to assume that someone let it in intentionally.
Who would let in a bull and why? Perhaps it was to be delivered to another house and they accidentally dropped it off at ours. Not likely. In that scenario, someone would have closed the fence back up after the bull was delivered. Perhaps the bull was already on the street and someone thought they were putting it back where it belonged or just getting it out of the road? Or perhaps someone sees us as an opportunity to store their excess farm animals. This I think is most likely. It is very bad form here to let your animals on some one else's property without permission.
After consulting a close friend, we took her advice and visited the local police to inform them of the situation. We did this to protect ourselves in case someone thought we stole their bull. I am sure the incident report reads rather oddly, but I suspect the local police are not unfamiliar with this kind of thing - whatever kind of thing this is.
That done, I wanted the bull out of here. My hubby thinks I am hard hearted for wanting to kick it out. We have a very nice area for a bovine to hang out in, plenty of green grass and water. I am sure the bull was quite happy to be here, but I wanted its owner to notice that depositing farm animals on this property is not going to be tolerated. So, under the belief that most animals are more afraid of you than you are of them, big stick in hand, I went to chase off the bull. I guess I looked menacing enough. He went off towards the gate, did a funny little bucking jig that reminded me just what a big powerful animal I was dealing with, and stood inside the gate for a while. Feeling more brave, I walked in his direction, keeping an eye out for trees to climb. At this he trotted off down the lane and I swung the gate closed behind him.
We noticed it this morning as we were leaving for a day trip to the next town north, Minas. On the way out, Cesar noticed a bovine on the wrong side of the fence. Occasionally, if we leave the main gate open, a cow will come in to browse the otherwise untouched grass at the beginning of our driveway. This bull was in the wrong area though - inside our fence. Closer inspection revealed that the wire fence had actually been opened. Considering that bovines lack the intelligence and equipment to open fences (this part of the fence has a complicated wire latch that was beyond my ken to figure out how to open - I didn't even know it was a gate at first), it is not a leap to assume that someone let it in intentionally.
Who would let in a bull and why? Perhaps it was to be delivered to another house and they accidentally dropped it off at ours. Not likely. In that scenario, someone would have closed the fence back up after the bull was delivered. Perhaps the bull was already on the street and someone thought they were putting it back where it belonged or just getting it out of the road? Or perhaps someone sees us as an opportunity to store their excess farm animals. This I think is most likely. It is very bad form here to let your animals on some one else's property without permission.
After consulting a close friend, we took her advice and visited the local police to inform them of the situation. We did this to protect ourselves in case someone thought we stole their bull. I am sure the incident report reads rather oddly, but I suspect the local police are not unfamiliar with this kind of thing - whatever kind of thing this is.
That done, I wanted the bull out of here. My hubby thinks I am hard hearted for wanting to kick it out. We have a very nice area for a bovine to hang out in, plenty of green grass and water. I am sure the bull was quite happy to be here, but I wanted its owner to notice that depositing farm animals on this property is not going to be tolerated. So, under the belief that most animals are more afraid of you than you are of them, big stick in hand, I went to chase off the bull. I guess I looked menacing enough. He went off towards the gate, did a funny little bucking jig that reminded me just what a big powerful animal I was dealing with, and stood inside the gate for a while. Feeling more brave, I walked in his direction, keeping an eye out for trees to climb. At this he trotted off down the lane and I swung the gate closed behind him.
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