Farmers saddened by end to week-long search for Coco the cow

The tale of Coco the cow, the wandering bovine who jumped her fence in Conception Bay South before spending a week on the lam, has come to an unfortunate end after the animal had to be put down.

"It was really hard. It was something that we reared," saidLouise Scott, who owned the 1,000-pound Cocowith her husband Barry.

"At least, I know where she's to andshe'snot going to hurt anyone else."

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On Nov. 8,the black Angusand another of the Scott's cows were out in the field when Coco refused to come in the barn for supper. Shehopped the fence in one clean jump.

After searching for a week, Barry Scott received a call from someone who spotted Coco in their backyard.

"I wanted to tranquilize her get a rope on her so Icould bring her back in the barn," Barry Scott said.

"But it never worked out that way. Sothe story went downhill from there."

Looking for a new cow

Officials with wildlife put two tranquilizer darts in Coco, he said, but she wasn't going down.

"Thevet said [the two darts] would put down two moose, and shedidn'teven [slow down]," Barry Scott said, adding she travelled through the woods and down a trail before wildlife told the Scotts they'd have to put her down.

Barry Scott said the meat wasn't able to be salvaged because of the tranquilizing darts.

Thecouple, who say they received a lot of unfounded flak on social media after Coco went missing, are still scratching their heads as to why she wouldn't come home.

"Maybe when she got out loose and all the people and cars around she might have snapped. But I can't say."

The Scotts say they will be looking for a new cow after Christmas.

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