Bully! Roslindale bovine found alive; he found contentment behind the American Legion Highway Walgreens

Boston animal-control officers and MSPCA farm-animal rescuers today captured the bull that had gone missing in Roslindale in June.

The bull was last sighted outside the Flaming Grill in one of the strip malls on American Highway (the one near Hyde Park, not the one near Mattapan), possibly being chased up a nearby wooded hillside by a family in a U-Haul.

And there he basically stayed, in woods behind the Walgreens, next to the Flaming Grill, rather than going on a grand adventure through the vast swaths of forested land and fields that make up much of southwestern Boston, until somebody spotted him last Tuesday, Grace Burke of Boston Animal Care and Control reports.

Boston Animal Care and Control were able to install a temporary pen to begin feeding the bull and were eventually able to lure him into the pen with food and water. Once secured, BACC reached out to the Nevins Farm Equine and Farm Animal Rescue Team who quickly agreed to assist with capture. Boston's animal control officers and the Nevins Farm Equine and Farm Animal Rescue Team built a chute and were successfully able to load the bull into a trailer after moving him through a heavily wooded area. Today, the bull was transferred to the MSPCA at Nevins Farm where he will be cared for until the organization finds an adoptive home for him.

After the bull was first spotted, on Hyde Park Avenue near Pagel Playground, Boston Animal Care said he had escaped from a Boston yard where he was being kept as a pet. The MSPCA say he won't be returning there - it says it will discuss details of his adoption in coming days.