Cow Escapes Slaughter

[GoddessOfGuinness]

Wins affection of packing plant manager

Friday, January 13, 2006; Posted: 7:26 a.m. EST (12:26 GMT)



SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) -- 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.

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 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.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/01/12/escaped.cow.reut/index.html

I vote for sanctuary! :D

[ragin_acadian]

1. awww. sacred cow!

[GoddessOfGuinness]

2. The cow's name is Molly

The owner said, "I watched her do things that are just not possible for a cow."

Go Molly! :yourock:

[ragin_acadian]

4. "thar evolvin! "

seriously, though. very inspirational.

reminds me of Norman from city slickers. best of luck to Molly!

[hyphenate]

6. Yes

He named her after "The Unsinkable Molly Brown." Cool story--only wish more people would see that cows are intelligent animals.

[BikeWriter]

8. Cows are intelligent animals? It's all relative.

I've been around them most of my life, and have raised a number of them like pets in the yard. The last was a Longhorn bull. I've even trained them to do simple tasks, but when compared to dogs, for instance, I wouldn't call them intelligent.

[alittlelark]

3. I saw that movie... I can't remember the name...

The cow became a prophet - that much I do remember.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

5. tweaking for molly

[El Fuego]

7. Yay for Molly!

I googled this story last week, and found it was being reported in India. That makes sense! :)