Yvonne the runaway cow is caught after three months

Yvonne, the runaway cow who enthralled Germans over three months, was been found in Unteralmsham near Stefanskirchen, southern Germany on Friday Photograph: Andreas Gebert/EPA

Yvonne's whereabouts became a national obsession in Germany after she escaped from a farm in May. One tabloid offered a reward of €10,000 for her safe return Photograph: Andreas Gebert/AFP/Getty Images

The Gut Aiderbichl animal sanctuary have bought Yvonne for €600 and say she'll spend the rest of her days in a paddock with grass to graze on. But she continued her fight for freedom right to the end as she tried to evade her captors on Friday morning Photograph: Andreas Gebert/AFP/Getty Images

Yvonne led a quiet life on the run, grazing among the fir trees whilst on the lam until she was nearly involved in a collision with a passing police car Photograph: Andreas Gebert/AFP/Getty Images

The six-year-old brown dairy cow escaped from her field in the village of Zangberg, 50 miles north-east of Munich. She was found nearly four miles away Photograph: Andreas Gebert/EPA

Yvonne's captors were unable to load her on to a truck this morning, so hard did she fight to retain her freedom Photograph: Andreas Gebert/EPA

Eventually Yvonne had to be tranquilised so she could be be transported to her new home in the Gut Aiderbichl animal sanctuary where she has been reunited with her son Friesi Photograph: Andreas Gebert/AFP/Getty Images