PENALOSA, Kan. — A Penalosa man had to shoot a cow that apparently charged him while it was on his property Monday evening.

Sixty-three-year-old Terry Foster told Reno County sheriff’s deputies that he heard a noise coming from his property. When he went to see what it was, he saw his two dogs attacking a cow.

He attempted to separate the animals and the cow charged him. Foster said he shot the cow twice in the head to protect himself.

No one knows who owned the cow.

The incident occurred just after 7 p.m. Monday.