More than 100 cows are back in custody after they broke out of the Fox Lake Prison Farm Thursday night.
The bovine escapees were first reported in the area of Brave Road.
According to a dispatch report from the Dodge County Sheriff’s Office, a call came in at 8:30 p.m. that there were about 25 cows in the road on Brave Road.
The caller did not know who owned them, but said they were just west of Fox Lake Correctional Institution and headed for Highway AW. The caller reported the cows had cropped tails and attempted to keep the cows off of Highway AW. It appears after the break out, the cows split up, because a second person called five minutes later and reported there were cows on Lake Emily Road, just east of Fox Lake Correctional.
According to the Wisconsin Department of Corrections Public Affairs Office, about 110 of the 298 cows at the Fox Lake farm were able to leave their pens. The cows were located and it took inmates 90 minutes to return the cows to their pen. The pen was padlocked by DOC staff to ensure that he cows stayed put.
There was no indication of which cow masterminded the escape.
Source: WiscNews
