No fewer than three different news reports relate farm fauna giving their owners the sideslip this preceding weekend :
1. Slaughterhouse Cow Makes a Dash for It
First , there was the capture of Floss , a Highland cow who had been on the ravel from the abattoir for nine months . The cow , nickname the Beast of Ealand , escaped from her owners while being unlade for market in Thirsk , North York . While Bos taurus are n’t typically nocturnal , Floss would come out to feed only at dark , repose low in ditch and dykes during the day to avoid mass , and she finally journey 60 mi away from her home . It was a harrowing trip : Floss was chased by quad bikes , near lead over several times , and frightened by poachers direct corporation shotsat her . But the story finish well for the rogue moo-cow : She ’s been buy for £500 and carted off to an animate being refuge , where she can live out the rest of her natural days frolicking on the hillside and munching on hay with other Highland moo-cow .
2. Marine Called in to Bring in Pig
In Cliftonville , a Kent seaside townspeople , law were called in to take in a runaway copper . Pepper , a large black pig , was ultimately cornered in an back street by a law ship’s officer and former Royal Marine . Pepper had only been on the run for an evening , ever since someone had broken into his shed and let him out . He was n’t in particular strong-growing , but his bulk restrain several of the other police officer . gratefully , he was returned to his owner the next daylight , after spending the night in police custody .
3. Tasering Animals into Submission
Not all creature on the lam have had such luck : Police in Hertfordshire shot and defeat a runaway copper who was menace an empty playing field this weekend . According to police , the strapper , who caused chaos on a nearby roadway before entering the field , was in such an agitated country and lay such a threat to public safety equipment that they had no choice but to shoot it . Sadly , this is n’t the first time that runaway brute have run dangerously afoul of the law . Officers in North Wales came under fire last October after they Tasered a runaway ram in the roadway . The ram , since named " Sparky,“survived the ordeal with little damage , but people who see the police - on - sheep savagery made several complaints to the local constabulary and to animal protective cover agencies .
