OXFORD, Miss. (AP) — It wasn’t your usual foot chase.
Oxford police caught a homeless emu, with help from some barbed wire.
The Lafayette County Sheriff’s Department had been getting calls about a loose emu for days. Each time they tried to catch the big, flightless bird, it got away.
Deputy Chief Scott Mills tells The Oxford Eagle that it had been a pet, but the owners moved away.
The bird wandered nearly five miles.
Officer Cody Pruitt says a recent chase ended when the bird got tangled in barbed wire, He says its neck was merely scratched. He untangled it, made a leash from rope, and the bird was led into a horse trailer.
Pruitt says a farmer who already had emus agreed to take the bird.
