Just when ya think ya seen it all!!

We had a young cow buff. hanging around our neighborhood early this spring .frightened the crap out of my daughter as she was having a smoke outside in the cold and dark about 6:AM....thinking of wolves and such when behind she hears the crunch! crunch! of something walking in the crusty snow towards her . She makes a very hasty retreat to the house ...with this HUGE thing looming up in front of her. I wake up hearing the commotion and run to the kitchen asking daughter what's going on....she says there's a f--cking buffalo on the door step .I open the storm door and this big hairy hoarfrost covered head comes through the opening , making these grunting snuffling noises giving me quite the start but then I reached out and petted her on the nose .
After awhile seeing that we weren't going to let her in (as if we could stop her) she goes visiting the other neighbors ....I phone the neighboring buffalo ranch (acouple miles away ) leave a message .....About an hour later they show up and get her back into the fenced in pasture land.
Turns out that "Lucy " was raised as a pet and misses human company ....after being turned in with the other buffalo on the ranch.
Took the owners about an hour to repair and fortify the fence .
 
Game farming (of indigenous species) is prohibited in BC, but bison are considered livestock. Used to be LOTS around the Peace country but many fewer now. If I recall, if the herd busts loose, the owner has a certain amount of time to round them up... after that, they're fair game! Blaze away!
 
You can't sell a buffalo to your neighbor unless it's dead as it will figure out how to come back home. Where I grew up south of Calgary neighbor tried to sell a few to people close by and had to buy them back or raise them for the buyers.
 
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