Renegade cows break out and are found in a back yard, 2 miles away.
Two police agencies caught up with a herd of seven cows who got loose in Phoenix Monday morning. They were found in a back yard on Barnes Street.Phoenix, NY – The motion sensor lit the lights at John J. Pietrowicz Jr.’s farm about 1 a.m., but Pietrowicz said he said he never looked out the window to find out why.
Turns out, he should have.
Sometime early today, his herd of seven Holstein cows broke open the gate at the farm on 952 County Route 57, Schroeppel.
Next thing he knew, Pietrowicz said, it was about 5:20 a.m. and an Oswego County Sheriff’s deputy was knocking on his door to tell him his herd was now grazing in the yard of a home in Phoenix, about two miles south.
Phoenix Police Chief Rod Carr said his force was called by E-911 shortly after 4 a.m. to help sheriff’s deputies round up the strays.
The cattle galloped down Volney Street and made a left off Main Street onto Davis Street, Carr said. “Without signaling,” Carr added.
Phoenix Investigator Joe Marotta and two sheriff’s deputies gained control of the herd, he said.
“They got them turned somehow, I don’t know how,” Carr said. “They ended up in a back yard at 12 Barnes St. and they got them basically surrounded.”
Pietrowicz called a business friend with a truck to help him retrieve his herd. They were back in Schroeppel well before 9 a.m.
He’ll head back to 12 Barnes St. tonight to repair the yard, he said.
“It ain’t no big deal fixing up that yard,” Pietrowicz said. “At least nobody got hurt -- there were no accidents, being they were out on the road on (Route) 57 and everything.”
Pietrowicz, who raises the cattle for their beef, said he usually lets them graze outdoors overnight during summer.
“But I think were going to bring them in at night now and lock them up,” he said.