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A cow, later named Mootilda, escaped from a meat processing plant in Arizona in August 2025; she was scheduled to die within days

After the cow was recaptured, a local farm animal sanctuary owner raised the money to buy her from the processing plant

Mootilda now lives at Aimee’s Farm Animal Sanctuary in San Tan Valley, Ariz.

Mootilda made a run for it — and it paid off!

In August, a cow ran away from a meat processing plant in San Tan Valley, Ariz., according to Aimee's Farm Animal Sanctuary . After escaping into the Arizona summer heat, the cow hoofed it through traffic and grazed by a pond, per photos and footage shared by the nonprofit, also located in San Tan Valley. Her time out in the world was brief; not long after her escape, she was surrounded by police cars an

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