We lived in Cook Springs out in the woods. There was a farm nearby that has a donkey band an Emu that regularly escaped and roamed onto our property....
Lol! Reminds me of an episode from the 1960s TV series Green Acres, where animals from a traveling zoo escape and roam over to the Douglas farm. Everyone of course thought he was nuts when he claimed to have seen a zebra, chimpanzee and other exotic animals.
Oh, God. We’re in Chambers county. Our neighbor had an emu and a donkey. Besides the donkey braying 24/7, that emu made the most unearthly noise on the planet. I think the donkey died and the emu ended up in his freezer for dinner. And he had two chicken coops. There was one rooster in particular who had it in for me, and I don’t know why. I never did nothin’ to him, but when he’d see me, he’d come running down the hill and up to the pond on the other side of the fence with a couple of hens in tow, and act like a pissed off hornet. I think he finally gave up on animal husbandry. Been quiet there for about three years now, but he still lives there. Same goes for the neighbors a half mile away - for ages, they had a paddock and two miniature horses, complete with shelter, hay, a small barn, food and water troughs, the works. Then about a year ago, I noticed that the horses were gone and the area had been flattened over. Could be that lightning hit one of the trees back there and cooked the horses into Alpo.