After making a daring escape while being loaded on a truck headed for the slaughterhouse, a cow in Nysa, Poland, swam to an uninhabited island on a nearby lake and has been living there ever since.
Cows are among the most obedient of domestic animals, but when their survival instincts kick in, they can pull of some truly extraordinary things.
Just last month, we wrote about another cow in Poland that escaped her farm and went on to join a heard of bison at the edge of the primeval Bialowieza Forest, and earlier this month we featured Hermien, a plucky cow from the Netherlands, that escaped just as her owner was sending her to the slaughterhouse and hid in the woods for over six weeks.
Now, we’re heading back to Poland, where another brave cow is making news headlines for her will to survive.
The cow’s owner told reporters that he is also considering calling in hunters to shoot the animal, but he is reluctant to do so just yet because then he would not be able to sell her to the abattoir. For now, he’s waiting for the vet to receive his gas cartridges.
The farmer has been delivering food to the cow by boat, to make sure she survives.
Luckily for the rebel cow, her cause has been taken up by Polish politician and former singer Pawel Kukiz, who posted a photo of the animal on Facebook, calling her a ‘hero cow’ and praising her determination and will to survive.
“She escaped heroically and infiltrated the island in the middle of the lake, where it remains today,” Kukiz said, according to Polish news magazine Wprost. “She did not succumb to firefighters who wanted to transport her by boat and she was still on the battlefield.”
“I am not a vegetarian, but fortitude and the will to fight for this cow’s life is invaluable. Therefore, I decided to do everything to cause the cow to be delivered to a safe place and in the second stage, as a reward for her attitude, give her a guarantee of a long-term retirement and natural death,” the impressed politician added.
For now, the cow is enjoying her freedom on her island home, but her future definitely looks brighter than it did on the day of her escape.
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