This is a story of daring, grit and escape. It’s an Arizona tale with the Western tropes of a lone hero, a standoff and a search for justice.
Two weeks ago a cow inexplicably escaped from a slaughterhouse in San Tan Valley and started running — and running.
The Show caught up with Ruth Carter, a volunteer at Aimee’s Farm Animal Sanctuary, to find out more about this great escape.
“A cow got loose from Miller’s Processing center. That’s a business where people who own cattle have them killed so that they can be eaten. So, this cow did not want to die, and so somehow she broke out of there and she took off. She was literally running for her life in the Arizona heat, obviously not knowing where she was,” said Carter.
“People were putting up posts about her. She was photographed in front of a local middle school a little bit before noon. And then she was finally captured somewhere around 4 o’clock when she was found in a water hazard at a golf course. She ran over 3 miles in that time,” Carter said…