John Di Leonardo got a shocking call when a Long Island bull that famously escaped slaughter in 2023 was finally found after two months on the lam in Suffolk County.
“We were on the phone with the police. They said, ‘We’re gonna shoot him,’ ” Di Leonardo, Humane Long Island’s executive director and anthrozoologist, recently recalled to The Post.
“I yelled, ‘No, don’t do that! I’ll get a sanctuary on the way! I’ll be right there!’ So thankfully, they listened and just corralled him and did not take that shot they had planned,” he said.
The frantic intervention landed the iconically brash bovine, aptly renamed “Bully Joel” after another famous Long Islander, a peaceful life in New Jersey…