Udder confusion in missing cows case (Updated)

Candace Elliott says one of her cows has come home.
Baytoday.ca reported earlier today that two 500-lb Hereford cows had gone missing in the Bonfield/Grand Desert area, and Ontario Provincial Police were urging motorists there to watch out for the cattle.

Around 3 p.m. Saturday, though, Elliott and her husband James returned to their home after searching for the bovines, to find one of them was back in the field.

A gray beast is still on the lam.

Elliott said she and her husband had just bought the cows in Woodville, Ont. for $1,200 and brought them back to Bonfield Monday.

"Something must have spooked them and that's why they left," Elliott said.

Played urban cowboy
Other farmers in the area were informed and left hay and salt licks out for the cows.

The animals were tracked down at one point, Elliott said.

"My husband decided to play urban cowboy and jumped onto the back of one of them from the hood of the pick-up, but the cow shook him off and then both animals ran off into the woods."

An off-duty OPP officer who is also a cattle farmer has joined the search with a tranquilizer gun, and Elliott thinks he might have found the cow and brought her back.

What worries Elliott about the cow still at large is its colouring.

"It looks like a buck," she said.
"We're into hunting season now, so we've gotten the word out so that any experienced hunter will take a double look before shooting."

First time it happened
The Elliots have 10 head of cattle, and it's the first time anything like this has happened.

"It's definitely not an experience I want to go through twice," Elliott said.

OPP Sr. Cst. Mike Szarka wants motorists to be cautious.
"The thing that scares the heck out of us is somebody driving along one of those roads, hitting the grade and then, bang, running into the cow."