Oh dear, we do have some calamities with our livestock don't we? Glad the bucket finally came off ok!!
Bertie my pet shetland sheep somehow got his leg through the handle of my plastic scoop which I had put down outside the door. He was charging up and down the field, waving his back leg around, and sending the scoop further up his leg. Every time I got hold of his leg he kicked like a donkey. Somehow I held on to the scoop, turned it, worrying his leg was twisting, and it flew off up the field - not the leg, the scoop!!
The worst thing I did was one day when I fed the farm kittens, I must have forgotten to bring the empty food can out with me. I went back in an hour later, which was not my usual routine, but thank goodness I did. One of the kittens had got in the tin, to lick it out, and it was stuck on her head. She was running round the place banging into things. I pulled the can off and her head was soaking wet. How she was able to breathe I do not know.
I never, ever leave a tin in there again.