A couple in Dryden had an unexpected visitor to their home, a curious bison. 6:13

​A Dryden couple had an unexpected visit from a bison at their home in northwestern Ontario, on Tuesday.

The bison escaped from a nearby ranch and wandered into the yard, Sandy Melanson said, sending the couple's cats into a frenzy.

Melanson said she opened the door of her home to take pictures and that's when the animal came for a closer look.

"Then he walked up right to the door and he just stood there," said Melanson. "We were petting him and he seemed really friendly, and we knew that he had escaped from the farm."

At one point the bison even tried to walk through the door, but backed off when she wouldn't let it in, she said.​

Melanson, who lives just down the road from the Northern Buffalo Ranch, said it's the first time she has seen an escaped bison in her yard.

She said her cats were looking out the window, and the bison was looking right back at them, which is what set them off.

"It just scared the heck out of them," she said.

Melanson said she hasn't had the chance to speak with the farmer yet, but understands the bison occasionally escape, but always head back home, eventually.