MAXINE'S DASH FOR FREEDOM
On the night of Tuesday, September 18, 2007 a cow was spotted on the streets of Queens. She was tagged for slaughter, but escaped that fate and literally ran for her life. Police and firefighters captured her and brought her to Animal Care & Control in Manhattan. From there, Farm Sanctuary's rescue team stepped in to bring the Fugitive cow, now named Maxine, to safety at our 175-acre sanctuary for farm animals where she will live out her life in peace and comfort.
Thanks to the people who responded to help this cow in need, Maxine will have a life full of green pastures, a warm cozy barn, nourishing food and fresh water, veterinary care, a herd of cattle friends, and the love of shelter caregivers at Farm Sanctuary.
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WHEN GOOD THINGS HAPPEN TO GOOD COWS
Reuters
January 11, 2006
Original LinkSALMON, Idaho - A cow that escaped last week from a Montana slaughterhouse, leading workers and police on a six-hour chase, will be spared following a wave of popular support, officials said on Tuesday.
Del Morris, manager of Mickey's Packing Plant in Great Falls, said he decided to let the cow live the instant he saw it cross the Missouri River through Great Falls.
Town residents will now decide through a telephone poll whether the cow will remain a resident of Montana, where it will live out its life on pastureland surrounding the packing plant, or be shipped to an animal sanctuary in Seattle.
Morris said the heifer he calls Molly and her escape effort attained celebrity status with television and news organizations requesting interviews and calls pouring in from across the country and overseas.
"I've been around cattle all my life and it's just totally amazing," Morris said, adding that it is a rare cow that escapes slaughter. "I watched her do things that are just not possible for a cow."
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RUNAWAY COW A FOLK HERO
By Barry M. Horstman
Cincinnati Post
February 22, 2002
Original LinkFor days, it's been perhaps the most mooooo-ving story in Cincinnati.
In a week filled with major news - the execution of a Cincinnatian for the
first time in nearly a half century, black entertainers' boycott of the city
and the countless feel-good stories of the Olympics - tri-staters are
preoccupied, of all things, with a missing cow.
No bull.
Since escaping from a local slaughterhouse by jumping a 6-foot fence at Ken
Meyer Meats in Camp Washington Feb. 15, the 1,200-pound cow has become daily
fodder for radio talk shows, TV newscasts and office chatter.
Dubbed Moosama Bin Laden by one DJ, the cow has evaded police and officials
from the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals while crossing
Central Parkway and entering Mount Storm Park in Clifton, where it was last
spotted by one TV station's helicopter ''Cow Cam.''
''The problem is, this is a free-range cow that isn't going to come to any
human,'' said SPCA general manager Harold Dates. ''And when you weigh 1,200
pounds, you can pretty much go anywhere you want to go.''
At City Hall and from coast to coast, where CNN and other news outlets have
chronicled the four-hooved fugitive's run for freedom, the cow's fame grows
daily.
If and when the runaway 7-year-old cow is captured, Mayor Charlie Luken
plans to give it the key to the city. In the meantime, WLW-AM talk-show host
Bill Cunningham, never shy about doing anything to beef up ratings, will
continue referring to it as Charlene Mooken, while his counterparts have
settled on nicknames ranging from Heidi to Bessie.
Everyone from Marge Schott to Fifth Third Bank has offered to do whatever it
takes to prevent the cow from ending up on a hamburger bun, the latter by
offering the cow a starring role in its next ''Holy Cow'' home-equity loan
ad campaign.
Similarly, Chick-Fil-A, a fast-food restaurant that features a cow in ads
urging people to steer clear of red meat, is offering 100 free chicken
sandwiches to whoever catches the cow.
Frustrated in their repeated attempts to lure the light-colored Charolais
out of Mount Storm Park's thick underbrush, officials Thursday devised a new
strategy: using three other cows as bovine bait to draw the cow into a
corraled area.
Today, officials - professing no fear that the scheme could backfire and
leave four cows on the loose - plan to truck in the new cows and place them
in an area contained within about 30 10-foot temporary fence sections. Water
and food also will be set out to make it look like there's a big cow party
going on inside.
If the cow falls for the trap, officials will swing the gate on a happy
ending to the saga. If not, they'll move on to Plan B: trying to bring her
down with a tranquilizer dart, a far less attractive option that requires
carefully hauling a 1,200-pound animal out of a hilly, brush-covered site.
Until the cow is captured, police plan to close Mount Storm Park to the
public. In recent days, the cow has been spooked not only by the joggers and
dog-walkers who routinely use the park, but by dozens of gawkers who have
come to watch the man - er, cowhunt.
The major concern of Cincinnati police, said Lt. Kurt Byrd, is preventing
the cow from wandering onto nearby Interstate 75. ''If a 2,000-pound car
runs into a (1,200)-pound cow, it might be pretty ugly,'' Byrd said.
Assuming the cow is safely recovered, it will have earned a permanent
reprieve from the grim fate that awaited it last week at Meyer Meats.
''There's no doubt this cow will be living the rest of its life in the most
comfortable situation that can be provided,'' said the SPCA's Dates.
Whether that is on Mrs. Schott's estate or some other farm remains to be
determined. Regardless, it's an udderly satisfying way to wrap up the story.
As Byrd pointed out, contrasted with the decidedly unpleasant local,
national and international stories that have dominated the past year, the
missing cow tale comes off as a welcome respite for Greater Cincinnatians
weary of bad news. ''If this is our major news story,'' he said, ''it speaks
pretty well for Cincinnati.''
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