Runaway buffalo ‘Tyson the Bison’ captured in Wauconda months after escaping farm

Months after the American buffalo escaped her residence at a farm in Wauconda, officers mentioned she was efficiently captured in Lakewood Forest Protect.

“We’re grateful the animal has been faraway from the forest protect safely earlier than Memorial Day weekend when attendance at preserves will increase,” mentioned Mike Tully, chief operations officer for the Lake County Forest Preserves. “The security of our customers and the animal has been our No. 1 precedence all through this course of. Bison are thought-about home livestock in Illinois, subsequently roaming free in a public forest protect shouldn’t be an acceptable place for it to name residence.”

Proprietor of wandering Lake County, Unwell., bison simply needs her again residence

Tyson is believed to have run off from her proprietor’s farm in Wauconda in September 2021. Officers mentioned they imagine she settled in Lakewood Forest Protect in early April.

Monday, forest protect officers introduced within the proprietor of Free Cattle Caught to assist along with her captured. They utilized specialists, a drone, a horse and a canine to search out her.

Buffalo nicknamed ‘Tyson the Bison’ noticed roaming Lake, McHenry counties

She was discovered early Wednesday morning and “flippantly tranquilized,” forest protect officers mentioned; the extent of sedation didn’t trigger her to fall to the bottom or put her in peril, however as an alternative slowed her down.

Officers mentioned she then made her means right into a barn for meals and Free Cattle Caught proprietor Matt Noble was in a position to shut the door behind her. He then backed his trailer as much as the barn and was in a position to take her again to his compound.

Officers mentioned Tyson is wholesome and below remark. Free Cattle Caught is working to contact her proprietor.