The day started early, Friday, row Saint-François-de-Pique-Dur in Saint-Sévère. When she woke up, the municipal councilor Jacinthe Noël saw on her doorstep the cows that have been keeping the authorities in suspense for several weeks.
Alerted, general manager Marie-Andrée Cadorette rushed over — “I swapped my high heels for steel caps, at some point it’s going to do! There followed an epic chase through fields and woods. The hideout of the fugitives has been located. Insistent, the Municipality urges the higher authorities to cut short the red tape. Discreet until now, the owner of the delinquent horde begs for his part a reprieve, hoping to repatriate the vagabonds by the gentle way. The UPA Mauricie summons the ministry to intervene without delay.
The saga of wandering cows continues in the MRC de Maskinongé. Escaped from their enclosure in Saint-Barnabé at the end of July, around thirty heifers ransacked the crops, now attack bagged bales of hay to feed and, to make matters worse, invite themselves onto the public highway. One of them would have already been caught in the vicinity of Yamachiche. The occupants would have escaped unscathed – “by a miracle”, say some. Nocturnes, the hackneyed have so far dodged any attempt at capture. Even the cowboys had to admit defeat.