Friday 2 September 2011

Yvonne the fugitive cow has given herself up

Spotted by VFTS in The Daily Mail:

Dubbed the Scarlet Pimpernel of the bovine world, Yvonne the cow managed to escape from her farm moments before she was due for a trip to the abattoir.

She longed for bovine contact after 98 days on the hoof where she became nocturnal after taking up with a herd of deer. The loneliness brought Yvonne back from the wild and into the clutches of man. Konrad Gutmann, 46, claimed the £9,500 reward offered up by a German newspaper for Yvonne's capture when she wandered into his meadows to try to befriend his cows...

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