{"id":877122,"date":"2026-09-02T06:44:33","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T06:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/877122\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T06:44:33","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T06:44:33","slug":"bull-on-the-loose-in-bridport-as-residents-urged-to-keep-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/877122\/","title":{"rendered":"Bull on the loose in Bridport as residents urged to keep away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bull is on the loose in Bridport, with residents urged to keep their distance until it can be captured.<\/p>\n<p>The animal was spotted around Hurst Creek, Elizabeth Street and the Esplanade on Monday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Police say plans are in place to capture the bull on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the public are asked not to approach the animal.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who spots the bull is asked to call 131 444 and quote incident 379-31082026.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"75372\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/pulsetasmania.com.au\/fbb0cd64-91dfjtmprc9rpni_0a36x_43bgg\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/fbb0cd64-91dfjtmprc9rpni_0a36x_43bgg.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1536,1024\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"fbb0cd64-91dfjtmprc9rpni_0a36x_43bgg\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Residents were urged to report sightings rather than approach the bull. Image \/ Stock&lt;\/p&gt;&#10;\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/cdn.pulsetasmania.com.au\/images\/pmg\/fbb0cd64-91dfjtmprc9rpni_0a36x_43bgg-300x200.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/cdn.pulsetasmania.com.au\/images\/pmg\/fbb0cd64-91dfjtmprc9rpni_0a36x_43bgg-1024x683.jpg\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" class=\"size-full wp-image-75372\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/fbb0cd64-91dfjtmprc9rpni_0a36x_43bgg.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\"  \/>Residents were urged to report sightings rather than approach the bull. Image \/ Stock<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A bull is on the loose in Bridport, with residents urged to keep their distance until it can&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":877123,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[64,63,128,338],"class_list":["post-877122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=877122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/877123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=877122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=877122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=877122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}