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A rodeo bull on his way to get his hooves trimmed escaped a farm in Matsqui causing drivers to steer clear of him after a highway in Abbotsford was shut down as a result on Saturday.

The incident happened sometime before 12:45 p.m. on Aug. 16.

"We had a client from Kamloops bring a Brahma bull down to Abbotsford for us to urgently trim before he was headed off to a rodeo in Alberta, and well, you can tell from the pictures, 'you can’t take the rodeo out of the bull,'" according to a social media post from The Happy Hoofer.

"The bull, clearly worked up from the ride down, ended up busting through our staff, a fence and gate at a local Matsqui farm and made it out onto the Abby/Sumas Hwy."

Highway 11 was closed in both directions from McCallum Road to B

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