ST. MARY'S COUNTY, Md. - Dick Wildes says at one point, he owned about 50 buffalo, and kept up to 30 on his farm in Hollywood, St. Mary’s County.

In his entire 43-year tenure of owning buffalo, he never had an incident like he did Monday night.

What we know:

He was feeding one of his two buffalo, Indy, when the other, Dozer, charged at him.

"They said it just happened so fast, I did a cartwheel and I saw the sky in the air, next thing I knew I was on the ground," Wildes said.

Wildes suffered serious injuries to his leg and arm, largely from Dozer’s horns.

Fortunately, he was able to make it out of the enclosed area and get to safety.

"It could have been worse. Could have been worse. If I couldn’t get out of there, he could have come at me again, and I could have been in big troubl

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