Ohio’s Bentleyville
Cow-at-large, animal complaint: Glenridge Court
According to a resident, a full-grown cow was standing in their flower bed by the road when her husband let the dog out at 6:15 a.m. on July 25.
The responding officer called Solon police after recalling a cow-at-large in Bentleyville and requested that they check with Rising River Farm on Chagrin River Road to see if they were missing a cow once more.
The owner quickly showed up with two other women to assist in guiding the cow into their trailer, proving that their intuition was right. However, the cow was still reluctant to enter.
Rather, the cow paced the yard before moving into the woods and across a few yards on Grey Fox Run.
After dispatchers contacted A&S Animal Control, a former dairy farmer employee was dispatched. The cow went back to Glenridge Court and then crossed to Eagle Nest Drive, so he and his companions also had no luck.
The veterinarian at Randall Equine Veterinary Group, who was ten minutes away, was then contacted by dispatchers and offered to use a blow dart to tranquilize the cow.
When she got there, the vet shot the cow with the tranquilizer after the village Service Department and some Amish men from a nearby house helped her corral it in a backyard on Grey Fox Run.
Once drugged, the cow was pulled closer to the road by staff using ropes, and it was then placed in the bucket of a front-end loader that the Service Department had provided.
After being secured, the cow was returned to Rising River Farm. Police observed skid and hoof prints on lawns, as well as damaged flower beds with plants devoured.
Police were also considering charges to cover the expense of the rescue effort because it was the second time a cow had escaped to Bentleyville, but they were still conducting an investigation.
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