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Rescue group offers to take escaped cows

Associated Press

POCATELLO – A national farm animal rescue organization said it wants to take possession of two cows that escaped from an Idaho slaughterhouse – but first, it has to find the missing animals.

The Idaho Statesman reported Farm Sanctuary, a nonprofit with celebrity backers, wants to help capture the cows and move them to a 300-acre shelter in California.

The two cows are part of a group of five cows that had escaped the Pocatello slaughterhouse over the past week in two separate incidents.

Two cows remain missing.

Farm Sanctuary said the meat processor has been supportive of the nonprofit’s idea to find the cows and take them to the shelter. The organization said it was told one of the cows is pregnant.

In the meantime, Pocatello animal control officials said they will investigate the slaughterhouse. A city ordinance prohibits cows from running loose in Pocatello, so Anderson Custom Pack could be cited for a violation, animal control officials told the Idaho Statesman.