'Hero' cow escapes slaughterhouse and hides on island for a month

A cow briefly escaped death by ramming a fence and swimming to an island in southern Poland.

The cow was being led toward a truck bound for the slaughterhouse on January 23, BBC reports, when she broke free and ran through a metal fence.

The cow’s owner, Mr. Lukasz, advised workers to tranquilize the large farm animal before transport, but they failed to do so and were overpowered by the bovine. One farm worker sustained a broken arm and bruised rib during the cow’s escape.

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The cow swam out to the nearby Polish islands of Lake Nyskie where she remained for weeks, thwarting capture.

Mr. Lukasz said he tried to capture her from the island, but each time he went to retrieve her, the cow would swim off, BBC reported.

"I saw her diving under water," Mr. Lukasz told Wiadomosci of when he would come to the island.

When firefighters came to rescue her, the cow swam out to a nearby peninsula on the island to escape them, BBC reports.

Mr. Lukasz eventually gave up on returning her to the farm and instead visited the island to leave food for the animal.

Source: foxnews