Nov. 10 (UPI) -- Police in California said an emu spotted wandering loose through a residential neighborhood was lassoed with the help of an animal services officer.
The Pleasanton Police Department said Animal Services officer Frankie Ayers and community service officer Amy Martin responded to the report of the large, flightless bird running loose in the Preserve neighborhood in west Pleasanton.
"This was called in by several residents, as the emu was sitting in the front yard of a residence off of Blessing Drive," Pleasanton police Lt. Kurt Schlehuber told the Pleasanton Weekly.
Ayers and Martin, who both had animal-wrangling experience from growing up on farms, were able to lasso the flightless Australian bird and take it to the Alameda County Sheriff's Office's animal shelter, where it was reunited with its owner.