Yvonne (cow) Yvonne (cow) Yvonne is a brown-white cow who in 2011 escaped from her farmer in Mühldorf, Germany, attracting media attention as she hid in the woods for many weeks. Farmers, police, and animal-rights activists were unable to find or capture her. Yvonne, born in 2005, lived as a dairy cow for a mountain farmer in the Liesertal valley in the Austrian Alps. In March 2011 she was sold to a farmer in Aschau am Inn, Bavaria, who planned to fatten and slaughter her. On 24 May 2011 Yvonne escaped from her electric-fenced pasture and hid in woods near the villages
Cow Country (novel) Initially, the volume was reviewed only on a limited scale. The "San Francisco Book Review" wrote, "With quirky characters and impossible situations, "Cow Country" handles drought, institutional lunacy, racism, and romance with deft insight, as well as keen-edged satirical commentary." The "Midwest Book Review" described it as a "tour de farce." "Kirkus" called the book "Ambitious in its creation of this kooky world, the book will certainly strike a chord with readers lost in their own wacky arenas of academic bickering." In March 2017, it was announced that Cow Country had been included in the long list for the Yasnaya