{"id":410661,"date":"2026-08-19T08:28:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T08:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/410661\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T08:28:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T08:28:11","slug":"bull-calf-leads-acs-officers-on-chase-through-walmart-parking-lot-underground-drainage-tunnel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/410661\/","title":{"rendered":"Bull calf leads ACS officers on chase through Walmart parking lot, underground drainage tunnel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Animal care officers dubbed the calf &#8216;Moodini&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>A bull calf led animal care officers on a chase through a Walmart parking lot and into an underground drainage tunnel, San Antonio Animal Care Services said Tuesday. (Animal Care Services)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">SAN ANTONIO \u2013 A bull calf led animal care officers on a chase through a Walmart parking lot and into an underground drainage tunnel, San Antonio Animal Care Services said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">The calf, who animal care officers nicknamed \u201cMoodini,\u201d was first spotted wandering toward a Walmart in the 1200 block of Southeast Military Drive, ACS said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>A bull calf led animal care officers on a chase through a Walmart parking lot and into an underground drainage tunnel, San Antonio Animal Care Services said Tuesday. (Animal Care Services)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">San Antonio police officers helped herd the calf out of traffic and into a nearby green space, but ACS said the calf \u201cquickly hoofed it underground into a large drainage tunnel\u201d before stopping to rest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Animal care officers were able to remove the calf and load it into a livestock trailer, ACS said. Anyone who has information on the calf\u2019s owner is asked to contact 311.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">ACS noted livestock cannot legally roam in San Antonio.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Read also:<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 kfUEDb copyright\">Copyright 2026 by KSAT &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p>About the AuthorGabby Jimenez headshot<a class=\"Link-PukYsz7Y__LinkBase-sc-scvrjz-0 gQZqgJ\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/team\/GJIE9RFO0GJW09UWER09WEFWEE\/\" title=\"View Gabby Jimenez&#039;s full profile\" itemprop=\"url\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gabby Jimenez<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 duhyRF bxSMlJ\">Gabby Jimenez is a digital journalist at KSAT. Gabby is a San Antonio native and joined the KSAT team in January 2025. A proud LSU alumna, she has reported for newspapers in Louisiana and Virginia, earning a Virginia Press Association award for Combination Photo and Story in 2024. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Animal care officers dubbed the calf &#8216;Moodini&#8217; A bull calf led animal care officers on a chase through&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410662,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[31199,244,82,84,83,4937],"class_list":["post-410661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-acs","tag-animals","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news","tag-south-side"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}