![]() ![]() It should be fairly easy to pen,” she said. “She is still a domestic cow and hasn’t gone feral yet. MacArthur, of Silver Willow, has said on social media that she will take the cow in if someone can safely capture it. “Maybe that’s just me saying that because I love animals, but they looked happy.”īlanchet had hoped a rescue operation would be able to take the cows before they were killed, but finding one that could capture and transport from the remote area of northern Ontario was a challenge. They were sticking together in their little herd. “They looked so happy, they were healthy in the ditch and looked great. It wasn’t the first time Blanchet had seen the cows at the side of the highway, a sight that became a bit of a tourist attraction over the past three months. “When I came back form my hike they were dead on the side of the road and gutting them right there.” “I saw them on the side of the highway with men who were ready to shoot them,” said Blanchet. 2 at Old Woman Bay she saw the cows along with some men wearing orange vests. “The OPP received numerous calls from passersby reporting the small herd on/near the highway, leading to concerns they were a traffic hazard.”īlanchet may have witnessed the operation. ”Most were corralled shortly afterwards by a third party, but a small group of approximately five cows remained outstanding,” said Nickle. Superior East OPP spokesperson PC Ashley Nickle said it was a third party, not the OPP, that euthanized what OPP believed to be the remaining five cows. See: Ham on the lam as truck rolls near Mattawa The truck was carrying upwards of 50 cows at the time and all but five were eventually accounted for. The cows had been grazing near the highway at Old Woman Bay since the cattle truck transporting them rolled into the ditch on May 14. “They are worth money dead or alive and most of the time they are worth more money dead so people don’t ask us to help,” she said. “I am so far away I can’t do it.”Ĭows aren’t often thought of as animals that can be rescued, said MacArthur. “I absolutely will take the cow and give it a home for 20 or 30 years and will also make arrangements and pay to have it shipped south to us,” said MacArthur. She currently offers sanctuary to about 300 animals, four of which are cows. Reached by phone on Thursday, Silver Willow owner Laura MacArthur confirmed she is ready to take in the cow if it can be captured. “(Silver Willow) is willing to take this one cow in and is putting a call out to see if anyone can help,” said Blanchet. While Superior East OPP report that the remaining cows have been euthanized, word locally is that one may yet roam the area, says Emma Blanchet, a Wawa woman who would like to see that cow rescued.īlanchet said that hope prompted her to search for possible solutions, and if there is a cow out there, it may find a home at Silver Willow Farm Rescue and Sanctuary in Mansfield, Ont. A rescue effort is underway for what is believed to be the final cow on the loose after a cattle truck rolled over three months ago near Wawa. ![]()
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