The highlight of an excellent article about Yvonne the runaway cow in today's Metro is this:
The latest sighting of the 700kg beast seems to confirm reports she now thinks of herself not as a dairy cow but instead as a deer. An expert from the Aiderbichl animal sanctuary in Yvonne’s native Austria laid eyes on the creature in the dead of night as he staked out his prey in a heavily camouflaged observation post dug deep into the undergrowth.
‘She stared at me – it was the look of a wild animal and not a dairy cow,’ he said.
I'm happy to accept that she has reverted to her natural way of life, which is pretty similar to that of a deer, but isn't that expert indulging in anthropomorphism of the very worst sort?
PS The e-reader version of the article has more pictures including one of Yvonne herself. I'm a bit miffed though that the Metro relegated this from the main 'news' section of the physical/e-reader version of the newspaper to their 'weird' section on their website.
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My money's on the hunters. They should so televise this. It'd be like 'The Running Man', only with a cow!
A cow with upwardly mobile social aspirations. You have to like it.
It's all a trick. Little does Yvonne know she is being lured into a stag party where she's the main event.
Posters all over the forest in Deer read: Stripper- 20 udders Yvonne - Saturday - all receipts to charity
MikeW
MW - one day you will have to bring the family to see my bison, these are real scary animals, these cows are no comparison.
My expert opinion tells me she is still a cow and does not think like a deer. But inside every cow is a wild aurochs waiting to charge out, just as a wolf still lurks in every dog. may take a few generations of feral living to manifest though, google: 'Aurochs' & 'heck cattle' and all will be explained.
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