It is unclear how or when the cow first got stuck. The firefighters worked with an animal rescue advisor to begin cutting around the tree, slowly removing portions of the willow.

Cutting begins when the rider cuts, or separates, a cow or steer from a herd of 20-30 cattle and uses their horse to block that animal from returning to the herd.

Sankar Sastri rests in October 2008 with with Nandi, a cow at his Lakshmi Cow and Animal Sanctuary when it was located in Upper Mount Bethel Township. He found a severed cow's head in March 2016 ...