Wierd! Rebel Cow Escapes Slaughterhouse in Poland, Swims Away to Uninhabited Island

After making a daring escape while being loaded on a truck headed for the slaughterhouse, a cow in 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.

According to reports, the daring escape took place just as slaughterhouse employees were about to load the cow on to their truck. Her owner, a farmer, had apparently advised the men to use tranquilliser on the animal, but they refused, saying it wasn’t necessary. They were wrong. As soon as the cow saw the truck, she started thrashing about, breaking a farmworker’s arm and leaving him with bruised ribs, before jumping over the metal fence and running across a field to the nearby lake.

Witnesses say they saw the cow plunge into the water and swimming all the way to a small uninhabited island. The farmer and his farmhands spent a week trying to catch the cow, even calling the local firefighter department for assistance, but every time they got within 70 meters of the animal, she just swam away to another peninsula. A vet called to shoot the cow with a tranquilliser gun said he had run out of gas cartridges and that they would arrive in a few days.

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 on the vet to receive his gas cartridges and delivering food to the cow by boat, to make sure she survives.

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.