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Animal activists are racing against time to save a runaway cow named Yvonne from hunters and police who are aiming to shoot her. The cow has been happily wandering in the woods and along a Bavarian highway evading her captures since May, but her recent antics have put a bounty on her head.
Yvonne is an Austrian cow escaped from a farm where she was being “fattened up for slaughter.” Since then she has outsmarted authorities and an animal rescue group that has tried to round her up.
Yvonne appears to be so intelligent she even taught herself to graze at night, like a deer, so she can’t be easily seen.
According to ABC News International, Yvonne recently made a move that changed how authorities view her free roaming spirit. The cow walked onto the highway and almost caused an accident with a police car.
Law enforcement branded her a threat to drivers and ordered her to be brought in “dead or alive.”
The town assigned two hunters with tranquilizers and guns to track down Yvonne.
Animal activists from the Gut Aiderbichl Animal Sanctuary have been looking for Yvonne since her escape, but have now stepped up their efforts. The rescue group bought the cow for $988 from the town and plans to take her back to their sanctuary in nearby Salzburg; if they can find her.
They are combing the woods in all-terrain vehicles with infrared cameras, but may turn to a tranquilizer gun, if time runs out. According to Fox News they came close to capturing Yvonne, but she quickly “darted back into the bushes.”
If stalking the cow at night doesn’t reel her in, the rescuers may use another approach and appeal to her emotional side.
Hans Wintersteller, manager of the sanctuary told NBC, “His colleagues have purchased Waltraud, a former stall-mate of Yvonne’s, and a calf named Waldi, and hope the cow will see them and be drawn to them by a need for companionship. They also hope to appeal to Yvonne’s maternal instincts.”
Wintersteller’s team also put out a trap with food, hoping to entice Yvonne. He said there are multiple obstacles in capturing her.
“We see her two to three times a day,” Wintersteller said to Deutsche Presse-Agentur. “But this is thick forest with very, very tight spaces. That’s where she’s hidden herself.”
“She’s also got brains. She is clever in all sorts of ways. She is so smart she doesn’t emerge from her hiding place unless she knows the coast is clear.”
We hope Yvonne will able to tell who is trying to help her and who is trying to hurt her, but for now she continues to elude both her rescuers and hunters.
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+ add your ownI pray she is only found by some kind folks ..she deserves kindness and loving home just like any other creature...Yvonne is not a threat to anyones safety and I wish all efforts are made to rescue her for the sanctuary and loving home somewhere.
If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.
---St. Francis of Assisi
Who claims 'cows are stupid'?.Is there solid evidence to back that claim up?.Quite frankly,HUMANS ARE STUPID,AND LIVING ..........'INSIDE THE BOX'.
Lidia, aren't you the one that just said in another thread that you don't vote? So I would take it that your opinion isn't worth shit, since you only talk, and don't walk.
And as for my 'psychic gifts'.mock it all you wish MARIE,You are making yourself look as worse as you are,and are showing those who are now having an awareness of you,how you truly are as a human being.Too bad your so powerful,you couldnt see OKINAWA HAPPENING.LOL.!.
Great to know she is now safe in a sanctuary.............@Travis H...'.Yawn' you're grounded!
Mark
austrians also gave us beautiful music think Strauss Waltzes, food to die for, the Sound of Music and all of its great corny songs.
I hope the cow is o.k. too.
Austrians, what a bunch of cowards, they're going after a harmless cow.."dead or alive".. Isn't that where Hitler was born? I'd agree to demolish every human city, in Austria or elsewhere in the world if that's what it took to get humans to butt out and stop them from their bloodthirsty murdering actions.
It has been caught, because it was lonely and got into a paddock with calves, I believe it was adopted into a sanctuary.
Fun story. Go Yvonne! Run for your life! LOL. I recognize that animals all have differing intelligence levels according to our human standards, but every living thing has a right to a free, happy life. My boyfriend thinks that since "cows are stupid", I shouldn't feel bad for their slaughter. Needless to say, I strongly disagree with him.
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