Nearby inhabitants and animal handle officers corralled the zebra named “Shug” in the group of Riverbend, about 30 miles (48 kilometers) east of Seattle, the Regional Animal Expert services of King County wrote on its site.

“The zebra seemed to be in good issue regardless of her almost week-extended experience in the woods,” the agency wrote.

Shug was one particular of four zebras that escaped as they were currently being transported from Washington to Montana very last Sunday. The driver had taken the Interstate 90 exit for North Bend, in the Cascade mountain foothills about 30 miles (48 kilometers) east of Seattle, to protected the trailer, when the animals acquired unfastened — shocking citizens and drivers as they galloped into a rural community.

A few ended up immediately captured soon after becoming corralled in a pasture. But the fourth — a mare who was originally dubbed “Z” — hopped a fence and disappeared. Shug’s journey rapidly captured general public consideration, spawning social media memes that put the animal all over the place from riding a ferry across Puget Audio to rounding the bases at T-Cellular Park, residence of the Seattle Mariners.

But there ended up additional credible sightings somewhere else: Some space residents noticed Shug on their path cameras, and that sparked some fears since the cameras also recently captured cougars in the location.

Previously Friday, King County officials closed off trail accessibility details along the Snoqualmie Valley Path in the Boxley Creek All-natural Place, wherever the zebra appeared to be frequenting. People today striving to see the zebra there could have been spooking it, building it more difficult to recapture, they explained. Feeding zones were being established up to assistance coax the animal out for a rescue.

Proprietor Kristine Keltgen earlier explained to The Seattle Moments she acquired the zebras in Lewis County, Washington, and was bringing them to a petting zoo she operates in the vicinity of Anaconda, in southwestern Montana. She had been on the road for about two several hours when she found one of the trailer’s floor mats was flapping and dragging driving her. When she opened the doorway to modify the mat, the zebras ran out. A number of men and women stopped to help corral the animals, such as a rodeo clown and horse trainers, but Shug had managed to elude these attempts.

Shug will now be transported to Montana to be a part of the relaxation of the dazzle, or group, of zebras, Regional Animal Companies of King County reported.