2,000-pound bull briefly escapes vet's office right before circumcision, report says
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}A 2,000-pound bull briefly escaped to avoid a planned circumcision. (istock)
A 2,000-pound bull wanted nothing to do with a planned circumcision and instead jumped a 6-foot fence to briefly escape his handlers so he could avoid going under the knife.
Joe Roundy, a veterinarian at Tooele Veterinary Clinic in Ohio, said he was set to perform a quick 45-minute procedure on the bull, but instead experienced a running of the bulls.
“Bulls don’t like to be messed with,” he told FOX 13. “We’d been fighting him … got him all ticked off because he didn’t want to go into where our squeeze chute is.”
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Roundy added: “He must’ve known (he was going to be circumcised. Why else would you jump a 6-foot fence?”
The bull escaped and made his way to a nearby Walmart parking lot, where Roundy used a tranquilizer gun to detain him.
“By then we had 40 to 50 people there and all the cops,” he told the station. “(I) walked within 10 yards … shot him with the tranquilizer gun, (and) called the cowboys to bring their horses and come rope this bull.”
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Eventually, the bull had the procedure, which was necessary because he was suffering from recurring infections.
No injuries were reported.