Eerie footage showing a herd of escaped dairy cows descend on a neighborhood in Georgia has been captured on a Ring doorbell in Warner Robins, Georgia.
Dozens of cows can be seen walking down a residential street before congregating around a woman’s front door.
Warner Robins resident Alisha shared the footage from her Ring device, saying she was shocked when she saw what the camera had captured.
“The cows completely destroyed my new landscaping and ate my bushes,” she said in a statement emailed to Newsweek. “There are deep holes from the cows walking in the grass, along with some lovely cow pies, but overall fixable damage.”
Ring doorbells are fitted with a camera and microphone and work using motion sensors that trigger audio and video recording when movement is detected up to 30 feet away. The devices have grown in popularity recently and are designed to allow homeowners to monitor activity outside their properties.
Alisha said she had moved into the house just three weeks prior to capturing the footage and was given the Ring doorbell as a Christmas gift. She said it was “shockingly awesome” that this was the first thing the camera had recorded.
Alisha said the alarm rigged up to her phone via the doorbell woke her up around 3 a.m. local time to alert her to the activity. “There was one cow in particular that I caught on camera trying to eat the Ring Video Doorbell, but it held strong through the whole ordeal,” Alisha said. “The cow ended up giving up and enjoyed a plant instead.”
The footage of the cows is one of the latest examples of animal encounters captured by Ring doorbells. In January, footage showed a tense stand-off between an Amazon delivery driver and a bear in Upland, California.
There are over a million cows in Georgia according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Warner Robins is home to several dairy farms. It is thought the cows escaped from one about two miles from Alisha’s home.
Alisha said she believed the cows made their way onto the street across a nearby building site. How the cows managed to escape the dairy farm remains a mystery.
“This is the first time the cows have migrated over here in the neighborhood,” Alisha said. “The next morning when the sun was up, I reached out to the builder’s agent on site in the model home asking for the farmers’ information and sent them the video of the rogue cows. It was the first time anyone has had this happen.”
Source: newsweek.com
