Later in the day, Jack Aiken exits the truck and makes way for the cattle sale, leaving Penelope behind in the truck. He will not attempt to sell her at New Holland because the management cannot legally receive an animal in that kind of deplorable condition. Jack Aiken's plan is to leave the cow in the back of the truck until he collects a truckload of other slaughter-bound cattle and then take the whole load of them to a slaughterhouse.

Pennell Hopkins pulls Aiken out of the sale and demands that he come to his truck. She tells him he has already committed numerous transport violations and advises him to surrender the abused cow to authorities. She goes to her truck and fills out paperwork for his citations. Pennell brings a horse blanket to Penelope and covers her with it. Officer Mohler gets hay and fills up a bucket of water and puts it on the trailer floor.

Penelope turns back and looks at her rescuers, as if to acknowledge them for saving her from years of misery and her intended death at a slaughterhouse. But Penelope is totally blind. She just turns her head to make a connection with the kindness of strangers. Thanks to funding from the HSUS, a luxury horse trailer owned and driven by Linda Whitmer of Tailspin Transport is ordered to take Penelope to an emergency vet hospital.

Pennell, Mohler, and the people who found Penelope in her condition all hover around Penelope and wait for the horse hauler to arrive under the Amish carriage horse shed. It's frigid outside and Penelope lies down on a bed of straw. Penelope has just about given up. When the trailer arrives, it takes the team work of both cruelty officers, a German Shepherd, Linda and her daughter, and friends of Penelope to lift her up and load her onto the beautiful show horse trailer. Penelope stands during the entire 45 minute trip the to vet's. Penelope arrives at the vet's office. The emergency vet on call feels she should be euthanized while still on the trailer due to the severity of her conditions. He notes in her death report, "A physical exam revealed severe necrosis of the right orbital and periorbital region, (likely secondary to squamous cell carcinoma given the breed and clinical appearance), blindness of the left eye, mastitis, pneumonia (as evident by labored breathing and harsh lung sounds on respiratory auscultation), tachycardia, hypothermia, severe lice infestation, and poor body condition."

Bovines with "cancer eye" are often sent to a vet facility for surgery to remove the afflicted eye so that the cancer ceases to spread and the cow can still be used for dairy replacement. But the eye cannot fall out on its own unless it is removed. In Aiken's case, it is evident that he removed the eye himself. The immense pain and suffering this animal endured at the hands of this repulsive redneck, Jack Aikens, is unforgivable.

HorseFellas will update you on the outcome of this case. Currently a humane officer in TN has inspected and passed Aiken's 160 acre dairy facility. But HorseFellas will not let sleeping dogs lie, so to speak. We don't believe that Aiken's farm is "cow heaven on earth." Otherwise, Penelope would not have been found in her deplorable condition. Look at the pictures and decide for yourself. Do you think Jack Aiken should get away with his hideous crime against Penelope?