Kicker: A woolly hideout

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NICK EICHER, HOST: In Germany, a runaway farm animal slipped the slaughterhouse and went on the lam.

I’ll have to spell that for you, L-A-M-B.

Because the fugitive hid out among a flock of about 200 sheep.

She did stand out. She was a good bit bigger, moved differently, and spoke some kind of foreign language.

SOUND: [Moo]

Meet Mücke—the cow.

And according to shepherd Alfons Gimber, she fit right in.

He said she sniffed, she mingled, she “behaved almost like a sheep.”

The flock accepted her, no questions asked.

But this was not to be a long-term arrangement. The shepherd did track down Mücke’s owner and offered to help return her. The farmer, though, changed his mind and agreed to let Mücke live out her years in a local sanctuary.

So… a clean getaway, a safe landing, and one very assimilated bovine.

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