May 20 (UPI) — An escaped cow was captured after a pursuit through the city of Utica, N.Y., involving sheriff’s deputies, police, drone operators and cattle wranglers on horseback.<\/p>\n
Oneida County Sheriff Rob Maciol said the approximately 1,250-1,500-pound cow escaped from a trailer in West Utica when its owner opened it to unload another bovine on Tuesday.\n<\/p>\n
The cow was spotted entering a wooded area behind the Red Roof Inn near Route 790 and Route 49, prompting a response by deputies, Utica Police Department, New York State Police and the New York State Department of Transportation.<\/p>\n
A deputy used a thermal drone to keep tabs on the cow as officials formulated a capture plan.<\/p>\n
A pair of professional cattle wranglers were summoned to the scene and they used dogs to herd the cow into an open area where it could be ensnared with a lasso.<\/p>\n
The fugitive heifer was safely returned to the trailer for transport back to its pasture. The cow’s owner compensated the wranglers for their assistance.<\/p>\n
“We’re just grateful that it came to a successful end; last thing we wanted to do is have this cow run out into the road, colliding with a car moving at a high rate of speed,” Maciol toild WKTV. “We only know what the outcome of that is; this cow’s probably about 1,250 pounds, somewhere in that neighborhood.”\n<\/p>\n
The cow’s owner compensated the wranglers for their assistance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"May 20 (UPI) — An escaped cow was captured after a pursuit through the city of Utica, N.Y.,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238013,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1457,35541,9,11,10,35540,1295],"class_list":["post-238012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-animals","tag-funny","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-odd","tag-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}