At least it wasn’t fully grown.

It took about 10 minutes for one University Park police officer, three SMU police officers and a group of students to catch a baby cow that had escaped from a children’s petting zoo Sunday afternoon.

High winds had blown down the cow’s fence enclosure in Burleson Park. The cow got away and eventually ended up in Moody Garage. Chasing the cow was a lone UP officer, who quickly called for backup from the SMU Police Department around 4 p.m.

According to SMU PD Sgt. Rodney Irvin, the officer wasn’t specific about what type of animal it was – only that it was in Moody Garage. Irvin, along with SMU PD Officers Debra Hardin and Jeremy Lewis, went to the scene.

Senior advertising major Will DeLong was hanging out in the dining room of the Phi Gamma Delta house with some friends when he said they noticed a bunch of police cars outside and a police officer running down the medium.

According to DeLong, they couldn’t figure out what was going on. Then, he said, they noticed a little cow.

“We all were laughing,” DeLong said.

A group of seven, including DeLong, decided to help catch the cow.

“It was straight off a bloopers video,” he said, recalling that the pig slipped a few times.

Police officers and the students worked together to corral the frightened cow, which kept going up and around the garage. The cow was later returned to the petting zoo company.

“It was a good coordinated effort,” Irvin said.

SMU PD did not file a report on the incident.