A boisterous steer known as “Ricardo” will live out the rest of his days at an animal sanctuary after he strayed onto the tracks at Newark’s Penn Station and hampered trains traveling between New York City and New Jersey. When transit officials shared a photo of Ricardo standing in the middle of the tracks and stated that there could be a 45-minute delay between Newark and New York City on Thursday morning, the young Texas Longhorn gained attention.
According to a witness who spoke with CNN affiliate News 12 New Jersey, a chaotic scene occurred as police and other emergency personnel attempted to subdue the steer.
Cheryl H. informed the station that “they tried to corner the bull not once, but twice.” The bull charged at them a second time, and naturally, they were terrified of him and kind of dispersed like roaches.
After being put under a tranquilizer, Ricardo was brought to Wantage, approximately 50 miles away, to the Skyland Animal Sanctuary and Rescue.
The steer is approximately 1.5 years old and weighs between 750 and 850 pounds, according to Mike Stura, the founder and president of the sanctuary, who spoke with CNN.
On Friday night, Stura said on CNN’s “Laura Coates Live” that Ricardo looked “much brighter and looking very handsome” after being taken out of the sedation.
Stura remarked, “He’s doing much better than he was when I first met him.” He was put under sedation. It was detrimental to them that he was blatantly on his side. That is not how cows can lie flat on their sides.
Since then, according to Stura, Ricardo has woken up and is lying on his chest, but he hasn’t yet stood. According to him in a previous interview, the steer has also been given antibiotics to prevent pneumonia and will stay in quarantine until a veterinarian gives him the all-clear to be with other animals.
Stura thinks the steer wandered onto the tracks after escaping from a nearby abattoir.
As Stura put it, a steer is a bull that has been castrated so that it can be tamed down.
