Exhausted Cow

I have never in my life seen a cow laying like this.  I guess I've never seen a cow that's all tired out from trashing a house.  FYI...Apparently, damage done by cows in your house is not covered by your homeowners' policy, so keep your barbed wire in good shape.

Here's the article, from the Dallas Morning News:

Cows make lousy house guests, Arkansas woman learns
02:45 PM CST on Friday, February 26, 2010
By ABIGAIL THATCHER ALLEN / The Dallas Morning News

Four days after cows broke into her home, a woman in Murfreesboro Ark., says she's still in shock.

Latisha Francis came home Monday afternoon to find three cows in her farmhouse.

Needless to say, the homebound bovines cause "total chaos," upending furniture, scattering belongings, and generally making a mess of things.

"It's not something that people would see everyday," Francis said. "At least I hope I never see it again."

The largest of the animals weighed 1,600 pounds.

Pike County sheriff's deputies, assisted by two high school teachers from nearby, helped remove the cows.

"It was a little different," Sheriff Preston Glenn said.

"Life's never dull in our line of work, but that was kind of different."

Francis speculates that her dogs may have spooked the cows into the house.

As she drove up, she said, one of the cows was looking out the front door. That one walked out on its own.

The other two took a bit of coaxing. And her laminate wood floors made it hard for them to walk, Francis said.

One of the animals was resting on a bedroom rug.

A group of men pushed and pulled the cow, and, thanks to the rug, "she just glided right through there," Francis said.

She called her husband at work. She told him not to worry, no one was hurt, "but I've got cows in my house." Her husband came home to assist in the cow removal.

She said she also called the local 4-H coordinator. She wasn't sure why, but it seemed like a good idea at the time.

Her insurance adjuster told her that the mayhem caused by the cows wouldn't be covered. Seems her homeowner's policy doesn't account for intruding cows.

Meanwhile, she said, the cows are staying where they belong.

Outside.

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