Cow Escapes Meat Plant, Dodges SUV, Train

[knitter4democracy]

Fri Jan 6, 10:32 PM

GREAT FALLS, Mont. - A cow that escaped a slaughterhouse dodged vehicles, ran in front of a train, braved the icy Missouri River and took three tranquilizer darts before being recaptured six hours later. News of the heifer's adventures prompted a number of people to offer to buy the animal.

http://www.comcast.net/news/strange/index.jsp?cat=STRANGE&fn=/2006/01/06/298809.html


Apparently, she was amazingly determined, and it doesn't look like they've killed her (yet). And they say that the cows don't know what's going on.

[htuttle]

1. Looks like that one learned karate!

Better keep her away from the other cows, lest her mad skillz get passed on...

[cmd]

2. Go, cow, go! n/t

[Eric J in MN]

3. Good luck to her.

I'm a vegan.

[Lars39]

4. lol Reminded me of this:

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/cowswithguns.php

[knitter4democracy]

9. That is hilarious!!!

I had to get my hubby over to watch it. Of course, I love that site and the llama song. ;)

[Lars39]

13. Glad it moooved ya!

;)

[knitter4democracy]

16. Bad cow pun.

;)

[Lars39]

19. lol

:)

[bahrbearian]

17. Thanks that was fun.

[Lars39]

20. It's still one of my favorites. :^)

[Critters2]

28. I love cows with guns!!

Sometimes when I just need a laugh, I pull it up!!

We will fight for Bovine Freedom....or die!!

[bigtree]

38. We were just watching a nature show, rooting for a hare running from a fox

started talking about man and meat eating . . . then this thread appeared! LOL!

[phylny]

41. It cracked me up that the images are of COWS with udders, and yet

the song uses "he."

The only reason I notice it is that when I work with kids and teach them animals, etc., I always struggle to remember to say "she" when talking about cows :)

[ret5hd]

5. Cows With Guns!!!!

gotta see it!

http://www.theflasharchive.com/f/f-50.htm

[LeftyMom]

6. Just a reminder: they don't want to die for you.

Remember that the next time you buy groceries, folks.

[bahrbearian]

7. Cows definitely know whats going on

I bought a white faced her ferd from my neighbor. raised it for three years along with some others, the butcher came out, as soon as his truck hit the drive way , he broke through the pen , out to the pastures,, he went through , two more fences, he stayed out there for two days before he came home. the next week , the same thing,,the next week the butcher parked out on the main road, same thing happened .. the next week he parked down the road, creped up to the barn and took his shot through a hole in the wall. I talked to my neighbor later and found out he used the same butcher, the cow knew the sound of his truck.

[knitter4democracy]

10. Ours did too.

My dad thought he was a farmer or something, and we raised our own beef a couple of times. One could hear his mom from a few miles away and would constantly break out and try to get back to her. We almost lost him the day the truck came to take them--he knew.

[DemGa]

26. Good Lord, I'm glad I'm vegetarian

[knitter4democracy]

45. I can't eat meat anymore, either.

It started as a health thing, but then I remembered how much I loved those animals and how sad it made me when we had to butcher them. It made for many sick jokes around the table, but I think those were made because we were all uncomfortable with what had happened.

[HuffleClaw]

8. kinda sounds like a

gary larson cartoon come to life.

[RevolutionStartsNow]

11. God, that makes me incredibly sad, as silly as it is

Poor animal. No burgers for me tonight.

[BeHereNow]

24. It's not silly at all- it is your higher self calling

I have not contributed to the slaughter of animals
since I was twelve- which is to say I am a vegetarian
for precisely the reasons your higher self is telling you.

The consumption of cows, chicken and pigs only adds to
the cruelty of the world.
Cease the demand and you cease the the sorrow of the world
not to mention the incredible consumption of resources that
fuel the sorrow.

BHN

[lvx35]

12. I wouldn't eat her...

If not for the great spirit, then just for the tranquilizers that have been pumped through her system from the darts.

[kestrel91316]

14. They better not slaughter her just yet....................

after all that running and struggling, her meat won't be fit to eat for a month. And they have to let the tranquilizer clear out of her system. Bet the withdrawal time for it is a week or more.

Maybe best to let a humane organization buy her and use her for a mascot. Bovine retirement home...........

[knitter4democracy]

15. They've had many requests to buy her.

I think they're waiting for the highest bidder, frankly. If I had room, I'd offer, but I'd have to make sure I had good fences first.

[pretzel4gore]

18. people need to delude themselves about animals

in order to act indifferent about how we treat them...people who come from rural areas and who live around such animals as cows must know that cows do value their lives and their well being, yet farmer types are the most prone to act as if the cows were mindless machines made of meat (maybe because there's no upside to treating them too humanely; they only exist for our profit, after all)...one of the question christians (indeed no religions except vegetarian ones) can't answer is how god looks upon his creatures being tormented in cruel ways as a norm of our life; they simply don't matter BUT anyone spends time around animals knows damn well they are very aware of their own situation, and can sense fate, though they cannot possible understand why humans hurt them so, and in such systematic and heartless style and no matter how 'born again' the person is, his guilt is not one iota less then say adolph hitler when it comes to the creatures of the earth.....

[enki23]

21. i grew up raising cattle. they don't "know."

depending on how well they know and trust you, most of them will more or less placidly let you herd them right into the trailer (or truck, or whatever you use) on the way to be sold or slaughtered. and, by the way, they can't tell the difference between the two. if they're going to fight you, they'll fight you just as much when you're trying to move them to a new pasture as they will when you're bringing them straight to the packing plant.

some of them are just wild, and nothing will ever domesticate them. most all of them don't like strangers, or anything significantly out of the ordinary. in some ways, they're like someone with autism. they live their lives by their routines, not quite like clockwork, but sometimes it's close. visit a dairy farm sometime, if you want to see a really obvious example.

most likely, this one was just a bit wilder than the rest. in this case, it may have saved her life. in other cases, it can end them just as easily. near the end of my dad's farming career, he had a stock cow who was wild like that. she was young, and had (at least potentially) a long, healthy life ahead of her. but she was wild, so that the vet feared to work on her, and she never did calm down. so my dad finally decided she had to go. he managed to get her penned up, but she was beating herself against the walls and threatening to do serious injury to herself, or to the barn. so he herded her into narrow hallway where she couldn't even turn around, to keep her from bashing herself senseless. she seemed to calm down, so he left her there for a while, probably with a little feed or hay to munch on, till he could load her in the trailer the next morning. when he went back, early that next morning, he found her upside down in that hallway. cows don't live very long upside down, and this one was as good as, but not quite dead yet. she wasn't smart. she couldn't smell "death" coming. she was just wild. and this time it killed her. some animals will get that way, even some who never gave you trouble before. no sixth sense, no real understanding. it's not that they're stupid. they're about as smart as, say, a cat. maybe a horse. not as smart as a dog, but smart enough to show some personality. but let's not pretend they have secret woo-woo knowledge from the cow dimension, or that they understand what's going on when you're working with them. they almost never do.

[Critters2]

29. Reminds me of Emily

the escaped cow who ended up at Peace Abbey in Massachusetts (peaceabbey.org). They let her live out her life there, buried her, and now have a beautiful "sacred cow" monument to her. I hope for the day when all cows can have such a life.

Go, cow!

[HeeBGBz]

22. Please don't kill her

Someone save her.

[LeftyMom]

23. Another forum is working on a sanctuary placement. nt

[leftchick]

25. hopefully farm sanctuary saves her.....

http://farmsanctuary.org/

they are one of the best!

[lumberjack_jeff]

27. Reminds me of a Pink Floyd song

Sheep
Harmlessly passing your time in the grassland away;
Only dimly aware of a certain unease in the air.
You better watch out,
There may be dogs about
I’ve looked over jordan, and I have seen
Things are not what they seem.

What do you get for pretending the danger’s not real.
Meek and obedient you follow the leader
Down well trodden corridors into the valley of steel.
What a surprise!
A look of terminal shock in your eyes.
Now things are really what they seem.
No, this is no bad dream.

The lord is my shepherd, I shall not want
He makes me down to lie
Through pastures green he leadeth me the silent waters by.
With bright knives he releaseth my soul.
He maketh me to hang on hooks in high places.
He converteth me to lamb cutlets,
For lo, he hath great power, and great hunger.
When cometh the day we lowly ones,
Through quiet reflection, and great dedication
Master the art of karate,
Lo, we shall rise up,
And then we’ll make the bugger’s eyes water.

Bleating and babbling I fell on his neck with a scream.
Wave upon wave of demented avengers
March cheerfully out of obscurity into the dream.

Have you heard the news?
The dogs are dead!
You better stay home
And do as you’re told.
Get out of the road if you want to grow old.

[megatherium]

43. I thought you would mention 'Atom Heart Mother'

which seems to be something about cows, although I've never figured out exactly what (it's instrumental).

But according to Wikipedia, the original title of that track was "The Amazing Pudding", and there is a cow on the cover of the album only because the band asked for "something ordinary" for the cover, not spacey album art; they were trying to avoid being type-cast as a space rock band. They changed the song title after reading a newspaper article about a pregnant woman who had a nuclear-powered pace-maker implanted.

[unkachuck]

30. the cow must be mad....

....you go girl, don't let those damn humans bullshit ya....that's a oneway ticket....

[dweller]

31. for Goshen's sake

put her ona ticket for majority house leader, she's got more moves than the pig that couldn't escape his fate.

:evilgrin:

dp

[Nikki Stone 1]

32. Can they put the cow on ebay? With a story like that, she'd get high bids

Of course, there would have to be a legal agreement that the high bidder would not kill the cow and would have room for cow on a farm.

I like this cow, but have no room for one. My cat did not seem thrilled when I asked if he wanted a cow.

[Critters2]

34. Sadly,

I think my cats would be interested in buying. Can't get 'em to join my dog and me in the vegan revolution.

[Nikki Stone 1]

35. My cat likes fruit and veggies, and especially chocolate pudding

He can take or leave meat, though fish is a different matter.

[Pavulon]

36. chocolate is lethal for dogs and cats(nt)

[Nikki Stone 1]

37. I know it's lethal for dogs, but I don't think it is for cats

I've never fed the cat chocolate, mind you, but I've found him eating mine, and he never had any ill effects. Roses are another story: he ate some roses I got as a gift before I could stop him and got very ill.

[theHandpuppet]

44. Nikki, chocolate is poisonous to cats as well as dogs

Tell your kitty no more chocolate for her/him!

http://www.peteducation.com/article.cfm?cls=0&cat=1783&articleid=242
http://www.pets.ca/pettips/tips-20.htm
http://www.envtox.ucdavis.edu/cehs/TOXINS/cats.htm
http://cats.about.com/cs/catfood/a/humanfood.htm

[uppityperson]

33. Trying to join up with Oscar?

[Rainscents]

39. I really hope they don't kill her.

She really deserve to live and taken good care.

[xchrom]

40. i hope a long and peaceful life for her is what comes next.

[Buns_of_Fire]

42. Run, Bambi, Run!

:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: