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Alimentary, my dear (departed) Yogie

WORDS: MR DAVID ASHTON

When a calf swallowed a customer’s wedding ring on Will Jelbart’s tourist dairy farm in 2009, no one ever expected to see it again. Will (’98) and his wife Sarah were managing the farm, when a customer told Will that the calf, named Yogie, had sucked the ring from his finger.

End of story? By no means. Poor Yogie ended up on a butcher’s hook, but in the process of dismembering her, a Leongatha butcher found the ring in one of her stomachs.

That led to an article about the find in the Herald Sun, which ended with the plea: ‘If the ring is yours, call the Herald Sun ...’.

Four days later the paper excitedly ran another story – the ring’s owner had been found! Mr Adam Haxhi claimed it, after a friend told him he’d seen the story in the paper. ‘People always thought it was a bit of a joke when I told them how I’d lost it,’ the Herald Sun quoted Mr Haxhi, who travelled from Lynbrook, south-east of Melbourne, with his wife Saskia, to collect his ring.

Will Jelbart ('98) relaxes on Yogie the cow’s hide with Adam Haxhi’s wedding ring.

Updated: Monday 24 June 2013