Mr Blackburn said a normal Monday took a drastic turn after the unplanned visit.
“The doorbell went – I was on the phone at the time to a friend – and Andy the farmer was at the door,” he said.
“As I opened the door he said ‘have you looked in your pool recently?’, and I said ‘no, why?’, and he said ‘well, there’s a cow in it’.
“It’s not every day that you spend three or four hours trying to recover a beast from the pool.”
After firefighters drained the pool and used a harness to lift her out, the cow was checked over by a vet to make sure she and her calf were healthy before she was returned home.
