Young bull breaks out in search of bananas at neighbor’s house

MANSFIELD, Texas (WFAA) - A Texas woman who lives next door to some young bulls has learned an important lesson about not feeding farm animals after one of the bulls broke through a fence to find her.

Latoya Keeling had been occasionally feeding the two young bulls who live next to her bananas through a barbed-wire fence in her yard, but she didn’t expect it to lead to what happened Wednesday night.

“They remember that banana,” Keeling said. “He’ll come. He’ll act like he eating the leaves, but he’ll be looking into the house, like ‘I know you’re home. Come give me a banana.’”

One of the bulls climbed through the fence about 8 p.m. and headed up to Keeling’s house in search of her – and a banana treat. Keeling caught him looking through her window.

“I saw a silhouette outside, and I was like, ‘I know he didn’t get up here!’” she said. “He walked up to the window and peeked his eyeball in there like, ‘I know y’all home!’”

Unfortunately, neither Keeling nor the bull knew how to get him back to his pasture. She called the police’s non-emergency line, and officers were able to guide the bull back, despite the animal nudging them and “resisting arrest.” No one was hurt during the incident.

The fence will be rebuilt, and Keeling has learned not to get too friendly with her neighbors.

“Don’t feed young bulls bananas. They’re like cats. They’ll come back,” she said.