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Town residents of Great Falls, Idaho will decide through a telephone poll whether a cow will remain a resident of Montana, or live the rest of its days in an animal sanctuary in Seattle.

The cow escaped last week from a Montana slaughterhouse, and led workers and police on a six-hour chase, actually crossing the Missouri river on its way.

The heifer has attained celebrity status, with television and news organisations requesting interviews(?!), and calls flooding in not only from the US, but from overseas also.

Del Morris, manager of Mickey's Packing Plant in Great Falls, commented that it was a rare cow that escapes slaughter. "I watched her do things that are just not possible for a cow," he said.