{"id":92015,"date":"2025-09-29T05:39:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T05:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/92015\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T05:39:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T05:39:07","slug":"escaped-bull-rams-napier-home-with-mum-and-kids-inside-inspires-childrens-book-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/92015\/","title":{"rendered":"Escaped bull rams Napier home with mum and kids inside, inspires children\u2019s book"},"content":{"rendered":"

They heard a peculiar noise outside and thought it must have been one of their cows, as they live on a small 3ha farm<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But her dog, Luna, started barking and she realised something was off.<\/p>\n

\u201cI went out into the lounge and I see this bull.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought \u2018oh my goodness that is a big animal looking at me\u2019 and there is only a glass [sliding door] between us.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe started headbutting the glass straight away when he saw me.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis idiot is seeing himself in the reflection, thinking it is another bull.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"TheThe bull ramming the house. Photo \/ Charlene Whyte<\/p>\n

Fearing for her two kids Arya and Elliott – aged 6 and 3 at the time – she scrambled to call for help. Her husband was 30 minutes away.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery time he was headbutting, the house was creaking,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I was on the phone with my neighbour, it went smash, the glass just gave in. I screamed.\u201d<\/p>\n

She knew they weren\u2019t safe any longer, and they shot outside -through another door – to lock themselves in the shed.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, the bull did not get inside the house.<\/p>\n

Help eventually arrived and the bull was taken back to his paddock.<\/p>\n

After getting over the ordeal, and fixing two smashed glass doors, Charlene thought why not turn the story into a kids\u2019 book?<\/p>\n

It has long been a goal of hers to write a children\u2019s book and she teamed up with local illustrator Nina Michaelsen.<\/p>\n

The book was recently published and has received glowing feedback from the publisher.<\/p>\n

Hundreds of children and parents have heard the whimsical children\u2019s book so far.<\/p>\n

Arya, now 8, said she had enjoyed retelling the story, reading the book out to children at local preschools with her mum.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s That In Our Backyard?<\/b> is available in Wardini Books, Taradale Paper Plus, Puketapu Store, and Amazon (or by contacting Charlene via her website paintlife.nz).<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"They heard a peculiar noise outside and thought it must have been one of their cows, as they…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91974,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[266],"tags":[829,2584,359,17954,5604,12445,18,117,59742,9423,2598,19,59746,59747,17,3917,59745,59744,59748,59743,9737,59749,2046],"class_list":{"0":"post-92015","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-and","9":"tag-book","10":"tag-books","11":"tag-bull","12":"tag-childrens","13":"tag-door","14":"tag-eire","15":"tag-entertainment","16":"tag-escaped","17":"tag-glass","18":"tag-home","19":"tag-ie","20":"tag-inside","21":"tag-inspires","22":"tag-ireland","23":"tag-kids","24":"tag-mum","25":"tag-napier","26":"tag-rammed","27":"tag-rams","28":"tag-scream","29":"tag-shattered","30":"tag-with"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}