Trying to grab the bull by its horns in Sophiasburgh.
Prince Edward County has approved a motion to create a draft by-law that can provide a “feasible and cost-effective” way to deal with large domestic animals running wild in the area.
This comes after multiple residents from the agriculture community attended the council meeting on Tuesday to discuss how cattle, including bulls, have been loose in the area for six months.
They say the cattle belong to an owner that has been unable to wrangle the loose cattle back to their property.
“Our plan originally was to put some feed out and the initial plan was if we could stay on the field, a 25-acre field with 14 animals, then we were moving things forward,” resident Lynn Levitt tells council.
“We didn’t even get close to that and they’ve moved.”
The loose cattle have led to some other farmers’ livestock being affected and some instances of the animals wandering onto the road.
Levitt describes the kind of cattle that are being let loose.
“These animals, they’re rodeo animals so they’ve got a little extra spunk to them,” Levitt explained.
“They’re not like an old Jersey cow. They want to do things, not go out in the middle of the rodeo ring and lay down like a jersey cow would and chew her cud to milk in time. So you got that going for them as well.”
It was proposed to look into a poundskeeper to help address the issue.
Council will bring back a report at its April 11 meeting.
