{"id":2621,"date":"2026-10-05T19:06:44","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T19:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lebenshof-odenwald.de\/?p=2621"},"modified":"2026-10-05T19:36:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T19:36:14","slug":"rind-mathilda-rettet-sich-selbst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lebenshof-odenwald.de\/en\/rind-mathilda-rettet-sich-selbst","title":{"rendered":"Mathilda, a young cow, runs away and saves herself"},"content":{"rendered":"

We've never seen anything like this in the history of our animal sanctuary\u2014a cow saving itself!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Suddenly, there was a new cow\u2014right in the middle of our herd. But what had happened?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo: Mathilda with founder Joar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

A dairy farmer a few towns away took a herd of cattle to a pasture a few kilometers from us. The unfamiliar situation was apparently too much for the young cow, and she panicked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She took off running. Through fences, across meadows and fields, right across a paddock, through a stream\u2014until she finally ended up at our sanctuary, right in the middle of our herd of cows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Usually, people rescue animals and take them to an animal sanctuary.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mathilda simply chose her sanctuary all by herself.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, everyone was very excited\u2014both people and animals. The owners arrived on the scene quickly, too. But the young cow was still so panicked that no one could get close to her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She seemed to feel safe only when she was protected by the other cattle. So we all decided to give her some time for now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo: Mathilda with her new herd at the Odenwald Animal Sanctuary<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

And somehow, I immediately had this feeling: \u201cMathilda can stay. She belongs here.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, the farmer hadn't planned on giving her away. We are all the more grateful to him for finally deciding, after many discussions, to let us take Mathilda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From the very beginning, it seemed as if she had always been part of the herd. Rarely has a new member been welcomed so warmly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once she had gotten used to her new situation, she became more curious and trusting with each passing day. The fact that she is so open with people also shows us that she was well treated at her previous farm\u2014and for that, too, we\u2019d like to thank the farmers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo: Mathilda with founder Joar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Saving one animal doesn't change the whole world, but the whole world changes for that one animal.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

... and ours a little bit every time, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yours Joar<\/p>\n\n\n\n

See also the story on Instagram<\/a> and Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Follow Joar Berge on other channels<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Website<\/a> | Instagram<\/a> | Facebook<\/a> | YouTube<\/a> | TikTok<\/a> | <\/a>Threads<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Das haben wir in der Geschichte unseres Lebenshofs auch noch nicht erlebt, dass sich ein Rind selbst gerettet hat! Pl\u00f6tzlich stand da ein neues Rind \u2014 mitten in unserer Kuh-Herde. Doch was war passiert? Ein Milchbauer ein paar Orte weiter brachte eine Gruppe Rinder auf eine Weide, einige Kilometer von uns entfernt. F\u00fcr das junge … <\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","latest_post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lebenshof-odenwald.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lebenshof-odenwald.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lebenshof-odenwald.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lebenshof-odenwald.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lebenshof-odenwald.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2621"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lebenshof-odenwald.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2638,"href":"https:\/\/lebenshof-odenwald.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2621\/revisions\/2638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lebenshof-odenwald.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lebenshof-odenwald.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lebenshof-odenwald.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}