He sure got a moo-ve on!
An Arkansas cowboy was roped into rescuing a stranded calf from a neighbor’s frozen pond this week.
“We just drove the truck right to the pond and just ran up there, got [the calf] roped, and got it out,” Max Bishop, of Paragould, told KAIT of the moment Caleb Albritton alerted him to the calf stuck in the pond.
Bishop used a large lasso to reach the chilly animal and pull it to safety, video showed.
Due to a recent surgery, Bishop struggled initially: He lost the rope on the first attempt, but managed to reel the calf in on his second try, KAIT explained.
“It was really lucky because where the calf had been laying, the ice had already started breaking and melting,” he said of the last-minute rescue.
The calf’s owner, John Lane, said that the winter is the worst time of year for his herd.
“When the ponds melt, the calves will still go out on them, and before you know it. I’ve lost five calves already,” he lamented.
