Months-long saga of runaway cattle in Quebec ends with weekend capture | 24CA News

The remaining cattle that had been on the lam for months in central Quebec had been lastly recaptured over the weekend.

Quebec’s farmers union says the final three of the 15 cattle that escaped from a farm in July had been rounded up Saturday.

For the final 45 days the Union des producteurs agricoles has rounded up all 15 animals and returned them to their proprietor in St-Sévère, Que., about 130 kilometres northeast of Montreal.

The remaining three fugitives had been recaptured this weekend with using supervised feeding areas round which fences had been steadily put in.

Union officers say they are going to debrief and attempt to decide who’s chargeable for monitoring and capturing future runaway livestock.

When the cattle’s proprietor first reported them lacking, officers with the federal government stated they weren’t chargeable for trying to find breeding animals.