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
Yvonne du Fresne Yvonne du Fresne Yvonne Donna du Fresne (30 September 1929 – 13 March 2011) was a New Zealand writer of Danish descent. She was born in Takaka and grew up in a Danish-French Huguenot settlement in the Manawatu District on the North Island. She trained as a teacher in Christchurch and taught primary school. Du Fresne was first published in the 1950s. In 1980, she published a collection of short stories "Farvel and other stories" which received the PEN best first book award. She wrote three radio plays: "The Spring", "The Ship" and "A Little Talk About Our Winter District",