"The danger is not hitting the animal and what you may do to the animal, it's what they may do to you," neighbor Darrell Weller told WHIO-TV. "And if you hit one, it'll come right back at you and come up the hood."
Police said they were able to contact the animal's owner, a farmer who keeps bison on his property about 4 miles from where the loose buffalo was spotted. The farmer was able to locate the animal.
A beefalo, a hybrid of a bison and a domestic cow, made headlines earlier this year when it was captured after 250 days on the loose in Connecticut.
The animal, nicknamed Buddy, escaped from outside a slaughterhouse in Plymouth and was captured after months of failed attempts. He was given a new home at the Critter Creek Farm Sanctuary in Gainesville, Fla.
