Wesley Bush, left, and Chet Peugh converge upon an escaped bull Thursday in Barrington Hills. The cattle wranglers were called in from Morrison, Illinois, last week to capture the bull, which bolted from its pen six days earlier. (Courtesy of Wesley Bush)
When a 1,600-pound bull bolted loose from a Barrington Hills resident’s property recently, an expert wrangler answered an urgent cattle call.
Wesley Bush, of 2B Wild Cattle Catching Services based in Morrison, Illinois, rounded up the at-large bovine on Thursday, about six days after its getaway.
The capture wrapped up a whirlwind day in which Bush learned of the escapee’s sighting in Barrington Hills, rushed from northwestern Illinois to the Northwest suburb, and located and caught the bull not long after arriving.
“He came out into the open and it was really easy,” Bush said Tuesday. “We just put a rope on him and had him caught.”
You might say Bush was born to be a cattle catcher. He learned how to ride a horse and work a rope while growing up in the Morrison area, winning roping competitions in his youth. He later began working for veteran cattle catcher Chet Peugh and eventually bought him out.
Over the years he’s been called upon to wrangle loose bovines across the Midwest, including previous jobs in the suburbs. As recently as July, he tracked down six calves that had escaped from a family farm along Route 38 in Maple Park.
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BTW, “Barrington Hills officials say Gulzina Eshbaeva, of the 300 block of Sutton Road (use Block Shopper), is scheduled for an administrative hearing Oct. 10 to face two village code violations: disorderly conduct-stray bull, and inadequate confinement of a bull.”
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