A Calf in the Road

Every day when I'm driving to work I pass some cow pastures near our house. Today when I passed one I saw three calves all standing together. As I got closer I realized that one of them was on my side of the fence! I was afraid that he would get out into the road and be hit by a car or get lost further away from the pasture - also, I assumed that the fence must be broken somewhere for him to have escaped. I wasn't sure what to do so I called 311 (Mecklenburg county's info line) and asked for animal control. The operator told me that she could take the call and so I explained the situation. She said I should call 911 because a police officer would have to come out and determine the owner of the calf, so she transferred me to 911 and they said they would send someone out. I would have never called 911 about something like this since I don't really think it was an emergency, but hopefully someone was able to get the calf back in the pasture. It was funny to me that however this calf escaped the pasture he still stayed right beside the fence and the other cows - he wasn't wandering down the road or into neighborhoods. I think these cows are owned by Hodges Dairy Farm, so when I got to work I also left a message on their answering machine in case they got my message before the police got out there. Hopefully, the little calf was able to get back in the pasture with all the other cows!