In Taber, Alta., it was 20 ostriches that escaped from a farm, but were rounded up by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
The cows in Quebec made it into the Canadian Senate where Sen. Julie Miville-Dechene donned a white blouse with black Holstein-honouring spots to recount how the cattle escapades continue.
The climax of her narrative came as nine cowboys — eight on horseback, one with a drone — arrived from the western festival in nearby St-Tite, Que., north of Trois-Rivieres, and nearly nabbed the cows before they fled through a cornfield.
“They are still on the run, hiding in the woods by day and grazing by night,” said Miville-Dechene.
She paid tribute to municipal general manager, Marie-Andree Cadorette, for her “dogged determination,” and the wranglers for stepping up when every government department and police force in Quebec said there was nothing they could do.
