Video shows escape

Video: “Shy, loyal cattle” stay close to home

There are currently six real "free-range cattle" in the Waldviertel.(Bild: Haijes Jack)

These are real free-range cattle! A herd has been on the run for around two weeks. Intensive efforts to catch the animals have so far failed. They are "circling" their home farm under the motto "so near and yet so far". What the difficulties of hunting are and why the animals are not shot.

The only real free-range cattle in the country can currently be found near Dimling in the Waldviertel district of Waidhofen an der Thaya (Lower Austria). For about two weeks, six Highland cattle have escaped from there and simply refuse to be caught.