Lawmaker Finds Bull, Horse in His Living Room ‘Note to self: The dogs can’t be trusted with door security’
This frame grab taken from video footage provided by Andrew Mackay shows a bull and a horse inside the Australian MP's house, Darwin, Australia, Dec. 10, 2025. (AFP Photo)
Australian lawmaker Andrew Mackay cut his dinner short after discovering his dogs had let a bull and a horse wander into his home.
The Northern Territory politician said he and his fiancée were dining out in Darwin when he checked his home security camera and noticed what he later described to AFP as “a cow’s head moving into the frame.”
Video Mackay shared on social media shows one of his dogs, Thunder, nudging open a glass door before heading outside with a second dog. Shortly afterward, Sue, a pet steer, cautiously enters the living room, followed by Cricket, a horse that pauses to inspect the furniture.
Mackay explained that the dogs initially opened the door just wide enough to get outside. Sue then scratched her neck against the door, pushing it open further and allowing the farm animals full access to the house.
For about 90 minutes, the unexpected visitors wandered through the home, knocking items off cabinets and exploring their surroundings. Cricket eventually found a bowl of vegetable scraps meant for the chickens and scattered the food around the room. The horse also drank from a fish tank filled with guppies.
“The fish tank has been drunken from, and I don’t know how many fish I had before, but I assume they’re all still alive,” Mackay said, adding that the water level had dropped “by a considerable amount.”
“Note to self: The dogs can’t be trusted with door security,” he wrote on Facebook. “Thankfully all of the pets were fine, but now the outside animals know what aircon feels like and will no doubt try again.”
Mackay, who represents a rural district in the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly, later told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation that while there was plenty of mud and water to clean up, there was no serious damage.
“We’ve told the dogs no more parties when mum and dad are out,” he said. “And we’ve been watching Cricket and Sue very eagerly standing at the back door, waiting for it to magically open for them again.”
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