Overview
- The cow escaped en route to a slaughterhouse and spent weeks alone in nearby woodland before reappearing.
- She walked onto a shepherd’s pasture in Neckargemünd and settled among about 200 sheep, according to shepherd Alfons Gimber.
- Gimber said the sheep were unbothered as the cow adapted to the flock’s rhythm and behavior.
- When the flock moved on, authorities sedated the animal on the pasture and returned it to the owner, who intended to hand it over.
- Rüsselheim, which already cares for roughly 2,000 animals, agreed to take the cow, now grazing safely at a sanctuary in Alsfeld, Hesse.