LOS ANGELES — A cow that remained at large after she and 40 others escaped from a Los Angeles slaughterhouse was found on Thursday, but unlike her fellow ex-fugitives, she will be spared after a celebrity songwriter intervened on her behalf.
The cows had caused a sensation when they ran amok on Tuesday evening in the streets of Pico Rivera, a residential area of the city, wandering around and munching on people’s lawns.
Sheriff’s deputies aided by police on horseback took hours to corral the animals and get them onto trailers for the trip back to the slaughterhouse.
At one point police had the runaways cornered in a cul de sac but the herd scattered when officers…
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