14 DAY TRIAL // After 2 years on the run, a devil-may-care cow by the name of Matylda is at long last back in the barn her owner meant to be her home when he bought her in 2013.
The cow was captured last Saturday in the woods near her owner's farm in the town of Zloty Stok in Poland. Well, truth be told, she wasn't so much captured as she was tricked into giving up her adventurous life in the forest and returning home.
In an interview, owner Leszek Zasada explained that, to convince Matylda to let him close enough to catch her, he had to bribe her with goodies. Eventually, the cow began to trust him and so the Polish farmer managed to put a lasso on her.
“We tried to chase her on horseback and also with dogs but it didn't work,” the man said. “For a few days I tried courting the cow. I would bring her salt, apples and cabbage, and it worked,” he further detailed, as cited by The Telegraph.
The cow is a looter at heart
According to Leszek Zasada, Matylda ran away from his farm soon after he bought her and brought her home with him. The bovine reached the woods nearby and there she stayed since her daring escape in 2013 until last Saturday, when she was captured.
Since food isn't exactly easy to come by in the wilderness, especially if one happens to be a farm-born cow with no survival training, Matylda would often loot crops, which is why pretty much everybody in Zloty Stok could not wait for farmer Leszek Zasada to finally catch her.
While living all by herself in the forest, Matylda somehow got romantically involved with an ox and even got pregnant. Unfortunately, the calf did not survive. The mother cow herself returned home with quite a lot of scars on her body.