Two traveling animals caught the attention of police recently. One was so evident as cruising in an open car and was immediately reported by surprised motorists.

Norfolk, Nebraska patrolmen scrambled to intercept the 1996 Ford Crown Victoria driven by Lee Meyer, flagging him down at the corner of West Norfolk Avenue and North 13th Street on 30 August, NBC News reported.

The police officers were surprised to see a full-size bull riding in the roofless passenger side of the modified Ford fitted with a metal fence.

The nine-year-old, 2,300-pound bull named Howdy Doody, a regular attraction at parades and fairs throughout the state has very long curved horns. It didn't pose a problem to the patrolmen, though.

Instead, the officers objected to the retrofitted car as it did have the requisite approval from the Department of Motor Vehicles.

Meyer and Howdy Doody were free to go.

Ohio state troopers, meanwhile, responded to a report of an animal running across US Route 35, roughly 45 miles south of Columbus, on 5 September, the New York Post reported.

When the officers got to the sighting site, they had to rummage through the roadside brush in Ross County to find the animal not quite the size of Howdy Doody.

The officers realized that it had likely fallen or jumped from a truck.

They took it to the Ross County Humane Society, which gave it a temporary home where it could recover from the minor scratches it suffered in the fall.

The RCHS said it would later move the piglet to a haven for farm animals.