Scituate police said Thursday that a runaway donkey that was spotted in Johnston and Scituate was caught and returned to its owners.

NBC 10 viewers shared videos of the donkey running along Route 6 in June.

Police said at the time that the animal had run away from its new home.

"I learned that the donkey basically escaped from a small residential farm on the Johnston/Scituate line,” Johnston Police Chief Joseph Razza told NBC 10 News in June. “The animal was being offloaded and basically got away from its handler."

The Valley Breeze & Observer reported that the owner of a nearby farm caught the donkey last week by luring it into a goat pen with hay.

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It's not the first time Johnston has dealt with animals causing havoc.

Three years ago, three wild turkeys disrupted traffic and intimidated drivers in the center of Johnston.

Earlier this year, a steer escaped a slaughterhouse and roamed free for months. It was captured in March and eventually went to a farm in North Kingstown.