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Australian lawmaker’s dogs let horses and oxen into the house: “Now the outside animals know what air conditioning feels like.”

Sydney An Australian lawmaker was left in further disbelief when, after eating out with his partner, he checked his phone’s camera feed to discover his dogs had let an ox and a horse into his living room.

Andrew Mackay, a Northern Territory politician, posted the incriminating evidence (with a comical musical theme added) from his security camera on his Facebook page this weekend, noting that life in his rural home may never be the same again.

“Luckily all the animals were fine, but now the outside animals know what air conditioning feels like and will definitely try again,” Mackay said.

The video shows her two pet dogs, with a mutt named Thunder in the lead, opening a sliding door to go out into the yard.

Soon after, a castrated ox or bull named Sue cautiously wanders into Darwin’s house. He is followed by a pet horse, Cricket, who sniffs a sofa.

Australian lawmaker Andrew Mackay’s pet horse, Cricket, temporarily enters his living room in the Darwin area, as his steer Sue enjoys an illicit indoor adventure courtesy of his dogs, who pushed open the sliding door while he was outside eating dinner, a screenshot from a security camera video shared on Facebook by Mackay on December 6, 2025 shows.

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At the end of the video, Mackay can be seen standing in the doorway, surveying the damage, while one of the dogs cuddles him.

The animals embarked on their escapade while Mackay and his fiancée were out for a meal. The couple ran home after the lawmaker remotely checked his pet’s camera and noticed “a cow’s head moving in the frame.”

“And then we found out that about 10 minutes after we left to go to dinner, the dogs decided to open the glass door with their noses and come out,” he told AFP.

Shortly afterward, the ox, scratching his neck against the door, accidentally opened it all the way, allowing him and the horse to enter.

“Over the next hour and a half, they took turns playing inside, knocking things out of the cabinets,” Mackay said.

The horse found a bowl of vegetable scraps intended for the chickens and threw pieces of it around the room.

“The aquarium has been drunk and I don’t know how many fish I had before, but I guess they are all still alive,” he added. “But it lost a lot of water.”

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