WORRY NOT, good friends. Those blessed cows trapped during New Zealand‘s earthquake have at last been rescued.
The family of cows were left stranded on an island following Sunday night’s 7.5 magnitude earthquake, after their paddock literally collapsed around them. They were, as you say, up dung creek without a ladder.
But now, the beautiful boys have been saved!
The cows have now been led to safety and hopefully some nice cow treats.
Their predicament lit up social media, with plenty of people desperate to see them rescued.
Ok I will donate to any kickstarter that will rescue these poor sweet stranded cows who’s with me #eqnz pic.twitter.com/idssGaAXTH
— it me, ash ???? (@ashsparkle) November 14, 2016
The Kaikoura farmer told Newshub that they’d delayed rescuing the cows for fear of aftershocks.
“The problem was we weren’t sure if there was going to be another earthquake, and we weren’t sure if it was going to continue to slide – that’s why we delayed going in. It wasn’t because we didn’t want to.
“We dug a track with a number of people – the soil was quite soft because it had all been tipped over and bumbled around, we managed to get a track in and bring them out.
“They desperately needed water, cows don’t like living without water so that was the first requirement, and I think one or two had lost calves in the earthquake so they were a bit distressed.”
He said they managed to rescue 14 cows in total from the paddock, but other livestock were not so lucky.
“We did lose stock, there were stock losses, but the whole hillside fell during the earthquake and we had a lot of stock on there – we don’t know what we’ve got.”
But these three cows are now safe and well, and we must recognise small blessings.
Source: Newshub.
Photo: Newshub.
