Horsing around

It’s common to see deer and wild turkeys casually hanging out on the front lawns in mountain communities in the state of Colorado, USA.

A video showing another kind of wild animal lounging outside a vacation home in the state recently went viral for its rarity.

The footage shared on the Instagram account of Colorado Wild Adventures and quickly picked up by outlets like OutKick and CBS Evening News showed a herd of bighorn rams on the grass, relaxing and sleeping.

Meanwhile, a passerby caught on her camera phone a more unusual sight on a Detroit street on 7 November.

Ellessia Drew’s video of the animal stunt amassed hundreds of thousands of views online but also irked the Detroit Department of Transportation (DDoT), which deemed the incident unsafe for city bus passengers, the New York Post (NYP) reported.

In Drew’s clip, a bus stopped on 7 Mile Street and let in two cowboys and their horses one by one through the front door. The handlers and the horses then exited one after the other through the rear door of the bus, according to the NYP.

One of the handlers, Urban City Cowboys co-founder Jordan Williams, explained that the stunt was pulled by the organization to draw attention to its presence in Detroit.

Williams — who claimed he had taken his horses on several DD0T buses over the years — said he spoke with the bus driver before walking the horses on board.

Williams said he hoped the city understood he was simply trying to have a little fun and cast a light on urban equestrians, the NYP reported.

“I hope DDoT looks at it as a joke like everyone else, and hopefully they come out to a rodeo,” he quipped, according to the NYP.