POCATELLO—The two cows that have been running loose all week in the city have apparently been located and brought back to the meat processing business from where they fled.
Pocatello police said they heard a rumor Saturday afternoon that the cows had been recaptured so they contacted Anderson Custom Pack on North Main Street and were told the bovines had in fact been located and brought back to the business by Anderson employees earlier in the day.
Now that the cows have been found the national farm animal protection organization trying to take possession of the bovines is pushing even harder to achieve that goal.
Farm Sanctuary National Shelter Director Susie Coston said it would be "a Christmas miracle" if the cows were turned over to Farm Sanctuary to live out their days on one of the group's sprawling ranches.
"It would be great to turn this into something positive," Coston said. "This is a chance to show compassion."
Coston said she would like to see Pocatello emerge from this episode as the city that decided to save the bovines rather than slaughter them.
Police said the cows were unharmed during their recapture but their fate was unknown after they were brought back Saturday afternoon to Anderson Custom Pack, where they were reported missing last Sunday.
Coston said Farm Sanctuary has donors who will definitely put forth the money to purchase the cows. The non-profit organization is backed by many celebrities, including Martha Stewart, Ryan Gosling, Kristen Bell and Ellen DeGeneres.
Anderson Custom Pack was not available for comment Saturday about the fate of the two bovines.
A total of five cows fled from Anderson Custom Pack in two recent incidents—Dec. 12 and last weekend.
The incidents attracted media coverage from around the U.S. as well as in the United Kingdom. One of the cows was recaptured on Monday and two were fatally shot—one by Pocatello police and the other by one of Anderson's owners.
The two remaining bovines had been on the lam all week in Pocatello. The only reported sighting of the two cows was Wednesday night on the grounds of Idaho Rail Car at the old Kraft plant on Kraft Road.
Pocatello animal control responded to that sighting but could not locate the cows.
Coston said it would be great for Pocatello if the recapture of the two missing cows had "a happy ending" considering all the media coverage the city's received for the two other cows being fatally shot.
She said she's going to work with Anderson Custom Pack to try to save the cows "before Christmas." She feels sparing the animals would also put the meat processing business in a very positive light.
Police said they do not know where Anderson employees recaptured the two missing cows but it's believed the bovines were recovered along the city's northwest border, possibly near the Kraft Road area where they were sighted Wednesday night.
There was some speculation that the two cows might have become intermingled with the cattle at one of the several ranches along the city's northwest border. But ranchers in the area of Kraft Road and Facer Mountain View Drive said they had counted their cows and found no extra animals.
Anderson Custom Pack has said the cow that fled the business Dec. 12 did in fact escape while the four cows that fled last weekend were intentionally released by someone trespassing on the business' property.
Anderson's cow containment issues are being investigated by Pocatello animal control but as of Saturday that probe was still ongoing and no findings had been released.
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Since there are no pictures of the two surviving cows, I'm thinking they've already been turned into hamburger.
fear NOT...
The MOO will be with you...
ALWAYS
Why would the Journal want to print other news when the original cow shooting story had almost 300 comments. Newsworthy is the not the question the Journal asks when publishing an article. It is how many comments will there be so we can charge advertisers more.
Who is we?
Are you disaffected in some way?
You had to guys in superhero costumes who could not find their party too...
We appreciate the distractions in the Treasure Valley, compared to drunken lawmakers, embezzlement, hit and runs, violent robberies and Mr. Supercut of DPRK.
If you want the real nonsense of the world, turn on the TV or I also recommend Yahoo (but only if you REALLY want an ulcer).
Hope your dinner is good and you can share it with many loved ones...if not, go and find some people you've never met and share it with them. They're looking for that too.
Well said foreign !! I agree with JLA though. It seems the ISJ avoids the real hard hitting news. I suppose they are protecting the gentle sensibilities of their core readers from reality.
I would hope so, given that the rest of the world's media have ben boxing our ears to the point of humbug.
If I want to know about all of the other stuff, I don't need ISJ, or any other paper.
My old hometown paper was the Nyssa (OR) Gate City Journal, a weekly from the old daze, when the town was the news as much as the world.
One man was the waiter, cook and bottle washer, with a few talented locals to write, including students and community groups.
It died years ago but those times were fun.
I find it a bit sad that with things that actually are news worthy happening in this world, such as: 2 nyp officers being executed, 100+ children being killed in Pakistan, Relations improve with Cuba, Korea cyber terror drama. But what is on Idaho State Journal's front page of Idaho State Journal's website? Cows. Good job empowering that community ISJ.
You then, sir, are udderly lost and have not tasted a drop of the milk of compassion we seek in fleeing the violence of our pasture.
Do not feel behooved, the cud is thoroughly chewed.
Maybe the cows hacked Sony. God only knows.
May as well let them buy them. These cows obviously were not meant to be butchered.
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