Heifer who was led to slaughter escaped and swam through an icy fjord (in 1987)
A similar story had developed in August of this year in Southern Germany near Neckargemünd.
To avoid a transport going to the slaughterhouse a cow had bolted to spend two weeks in the woods.
Being a gregarious animal she must have felt lonely and ended up at an enclosure with a flock of sheep.
Alfons the shepherd first tried to put up a fence around her but the cow wouldn't let him. She broke through the fence and joined the 200 sheep. “She sniffed the sheep, mingled with them, and seems to feel right at home, she now behaves almost like a sheep. And the herd has accepted her without any problems,” he told the Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung newspaper. “I've never seen anything like this in all my years.”
When the sheep had to move on they had the cow sedated and brought back to her former owner who actually resisted taking her back. Luckily the animal sanctuary "Rüsselheim" in Alsfeld (Hessen) have accepted her to their farm. As they are vegans they have been building up a large number of pigs, cattle and sheep at various places around the country.
A similar story had developed in August of this year in Southern Germany near Neckargemünd.
To avoid a transport going to the slaughterhouse a cow had bolted to spend two weeks in the woods.
Being a gregarious animal she must have felt lonely and ended up at an enclosure with a flock of sheep.
Alfons the shepherd first tried to put up a fence around her but the cow wouldn't let him. She broke through the fence and joined the 200 sheep. “She sniffed the sheep, mingled with them, and seems to feel right at home, she now behaves almost like a sheep. And the herd has accepted her without any problems,” he told the Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung newspaper. “I've never seen anything like this in all my years.”
When the sheep had to move on they had the cow sedated and brought back to her former owner who actually resisted taking her back. Luckily the animal sanctuary "Rüsselheim" in Alsfeld (Hessen) have accepted her to their farm. As they are vegans they have been building up a large number of pigs, cattle and sheep at various places around the country.
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