Cow that escaped slaughterhouse has new adventure

[The Straight Story]

Cow that escaped slaughterhouse has new adventure






BILLINGS, Mont. – Five years after a cow dubbed the "Unsinkable Molly B" leapt a slaughterhouse gate and swam across the Missouri River in an escape that drew international attention, the heifer has again eluded fate, surviving the collapse of the animal sanctuary where she was meant to retire.

Molly B was among an estimated 1,200 animals removed from the Montana Large Animal Sanctuary and Rescue in recent weeks as part of a massive effort to bail out its overwhelmed owners.

Animal welfare groups said they were forced to euthanize dozens of starving and ill cattle, horses and llamas found on the 400-acre sanctuary in rural Sanders County.

The bovine celebrity herself - an overweight black Angus breed said to be sore in the hoof but otherwise relatively healthy - was removed to a nearby ranch and is headed this week to a smaller farm sanctuary.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110203/ap_on_re_us/us_survivor_cow

[xchrom]

1. glad for her! sad for those that couldn't be rescued. nt

[Canuckistanian]

2. That cow's a maverick!

Er, so to speak.

[lame54]

3. That's one steak I wouldn't eat...

out of respect

[BanzaiBonnie]

6. Ever watched "Cows with guns"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQMbXvn2RNI

I watch it at least once a year. Political and funny. I know... guns are involved.

[lame54]

8. Thanks - reminds me of this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5mJQGMqJvw

[JackintheGreen]

4. Molly B doesn't sleep. She waits. n/t

[patrice]

5. awesome post!

[Brickbat]

7. Sounds like life at the "sanctuary" wasn't much better than in a slaughterhouse.

I hope those people are prosecuted fully. What a nightmare.

[patrice]

9. Go! Molly B!!!

[Erose999]

10. Where were these river crossing cattle when I was playing Oregon Trail as a kid?

Every time I tried to cross the Missouri river all my oxen would die :(