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Cow Caught After Escaping Slaughterhouse in Cincinnati, Ohio

Aired February 27, 2002 - 05:57   ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: It's a moo moo here and a moo moo there. Yes, a cow that eluded Cincinnati Police for 10 days has been captured but has escaped certain death. It's quite a moving story, and we get details from reporter Brian Hamerick of CNN affiliate WLWT.

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BRIAN HAMERICK, WLWT-TV REPORTER (voice-over): She's a caged tornado on four hooves. Even to veterans in the cow business...

KEN MEYER, COW OWNER: She is wild and crazy.

HAMERICK: ... this is one unusual cow. Ken Meyer is the owner.

MEYER: She is a real specimen.

HAMERICK: The cow's capture didn't come easy. After escaping the slaughterhouse, it took horses, hunters and other cows used as bait nearly two weeks, but getting a tranquilizer dart in this cow was just a first step. She was down but not out.

TODD MANSER, SPCA: Got back to her feet, crashing down through the woods and the chase was on.

DANNY DOWER, CATTLE DEALER: Yes, she ran down the hill and got in the thicket.

MANSER: The tranquilizer fluid goes in here.

DOWER: She was about half-wobbly and I slipped up on her and got a rope around her.

MANSER: She was pretty much running the show at that point, you know, we were just along for the ride.

HAMERICK (on camera): They say this cow is Olympic caliber when it comes to jumping fences. She cleared one about two feet taller than this in order to escape. It's raised the security bar along with the tops of the fences at the meat packing plant where owner Ken Meyer...

MEYER: She's safe. The public's safe. We're going to find a place for her.

HAMERICK (voice-over): It's a happy ending to a cow story so unbelievable it could have started once upon a time.

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COSTELLO: Well at least she -- she's going to have a happy life now. That was Brian Hamerick of our affiliate WLWT.

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