{"id":3245,"date":"2025-08-22T13:19:23","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T13:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/22\/large-cow-rescued-from-norfolk-canal\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T13:19:24","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T13:19:24","slug":"large-cow-rescued-from-norfolk-canal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/22\/large-cow-rescued-from-norfolk-canal\/","title":{"rendered":"Large cow rescued from Norfolk canal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-08-22 13:19:22<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>Firefighters rescued a &#8220;particularly large cow&#8221; from a canal.<BR><br \/>\nNorfolk Fire and Rescue Service&#8217;s arrow and North Walsham crews dashed to Anchor Road in North Walsham, Norfolk, East of England, following reports that the &#8220;particularly large cow had gone for a swim to cool off in the canal and ended up getting stuck&#8221;.<BR><br \/>\nSpecialist water and animal rescue teams assisted the Firefighters in pulling the animal out of the canal.<BR><br \/>\nThey tied a strap around the cow&#8217;s body, and they guided the bovine upstream.<BR><br \/>\nEventually, the animal got out of the canal and rejoined the herd.<BR><br \/>\nThe Norfolk Fire and Rescue Service uploaded a video of the rescue operation to its Facebook page on August 20, and it captioned the clip with: &#8220;Here\u2019s a job from the weekend you may not have herd about.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;We were called to a job on Anchor Road in North Walsham, where a particularly large cow had gone for a swim to cool off in the canal and ended up getting stuck.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;When our Carrow and North Walsham crews arrived, alongside our specialist water and animal rescue teams, she was a little worn out and confused.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;And as you can see, it was a challenge to get her out of the water!<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;But not to be cowed, and with some bullish determination, the crews got her moo-ving (ok, we might be milking it now) upstream along the river and eventually she was able to escape and return to her field with her mates!<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;An udderly delightful end to our tale, we hope you agree. (sic)&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-08-22 13:19:22 Firefighters rescued a &#8220;particularly large cow&#8221; from a canal. Norfolk Fire and Rescue Service&#8217;s arrow and North Walsham crews dashed to Anchor Road in North Walsham, Norfolk, East&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3246,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3247,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3245\/revisions\/3247"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}