The cattle rustling – and there’s cattle rustlin‘!.While it’s quite common for the RCMP to be called in when one of two cows get stolen on the Prairies, it’s a whole different matter when the entire herd is pilfered..RCMP in Saskatchewan are now on the look-out for 63 purloined cattle worth an estimated $100,000..RCMP said between October and December, a Saskatchewan farmer had 35 cows and 28 calves on multiple quarters of land between Moosomin and Fairlight go missing..It was only reported a couple of days ago and RCMP are investigating the matter as a theft..“It’s definitely rare. Just everything about it,” Cpl. Dallyn Holmstrom told Global News..“I’ve heard of people losing cows to the (United) States over frauds … but it’s always been a fraud where they’ve sold cows and then through frauds or whatever, they haven’t gotten money.. Mossleigh pub briefly opens before authorities move in .““But I’ve never heard of cows just being stolen — at this magnitude anyway.”.Holmstrom told Global all the cows are all branded with a line over a capital T and E..“The calves aren’t branded, but they all have ear tags and the cows have ear tags as well, but they’re branded,” Holmstrom told Global..“They can’t go to an auction mart, they can’t go to a butcher. They can’t because they’re branded.”.Anyone with information is asked to contact 310-7267 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477..Dave Naylor is the News Editor of the Western Standard.dnaylor@westernstandardonline.com.TWITTER: Twitter.com/nobby7694
The cattle rustling – and there’s cattle rustlin‘!.While it’s quite common for the RCMP to be called in when one of two cows get stolen on the Prairies, it’s a whole different matter when the entire herd is pilfered..RCMP in Saskatchewan are now on the look-out for 63 purloined cattle worth an estimated $100,000..RCMP said between October and December, a Saskatchewan farmer had 35 cows and 28 calves on multiple quarters of land between Moosomin and Fairlight go missing..It was only reported a couple of days ago and RCMP are investigating the matter as a theft..“It’s definitely rare. Just everything about it,” Cpl. Dallyn Holmstrom told Global News..“I’ve heard of people losing cows to the (United) States over frauds … but it’s always been a fraud where they’ve sold cows and then through frauds or whatever, they haven’t gotten money.. Mossleigh pub briefly opens before authorities move in .““But I’ve never heard of cows just being stolen — at this magnitude anyway.”.Holmstrom told Global all the cows are all branded with a line over a capital T and E..“The calves aren’t branded, but they all have ear tags and the cows have ear tags as well, but they’re branded,” Holmstrom told Global..“They can’t go to an auction mart, they can’t go to a butcher. They can’t because they’re branded.”.Anyone with information is asked to contact 310-7267 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477..Dave Naylor is the News Editor of the Western Standard.dnaylor@westernstandardonline.com.TWITTER: Twitter.com/nobby7694
