A black Angus cow and her newborn calf graze at their home in Limestone County September 2018.

A black Angus cow named Tuesday from eastern Limestone County is missing and this isn’t her first disappearing act. However, her family would desperately like to bring her home.

The cow, who belongs to Jarita Saylor’s son and Dot Putman’s grandson, disappeared from the Putman farm for the first time about two years ago. At that time, Saylor said she was missing with two other cows. Fortunately, a friend saw a Facebook post from Saylor and was able to locate Tuesday about five miles from the farm near Capshaw. The other missing cow was located a few days later.

Saylor explained in one of her Facebook posts that her dad and son, Adam, now a veterinary student at Auburn University, had purchased three cows from a sale in Pulaski back in 2016. Tuesday the cow got her name because she was bought on a Tuesday.

“Each cow is pregnant and most likely had been separated from a calf prior to the sale,” Saylor said in the post. “When a cow is separated from a calf, she’ll go search for it.”

Saylor said they typically stay within the pasture, but Tuesday seemed to have broken through the catch pen fence and wandered away.

Last week, Tuesday was missing again. Coincidentally, she disappeared on Tuesday, Sept. 4, Putman said.

Saylor explained in a more recent Facebook post that Tuesday had a calf that was taken to the stockyard and sold.

“And yes, you’ve got it,” she said in the post. “Tuesday’s gone. AGAIN.”

Putman believes Tuesday might have disappeared in hopes of locating her calf.

“She is so motherly,” Putman said. “She’s looking for her little calf.”

Saylor said her parents and an uncle had been looking for the cow in the area of Ennis, Mooresville, Pepper, McCulley Mill and Nick Davis roads. Putman said they’ve exhausted every effort and been to about every farm around that has cattle.

Tuesday is a solid black cow with a white tag in her right ear. Saylor said that at one time, the tag was marked A1. However, she believes it could now be weathered and faded.

If anyone sees Tuesday or knows where she might be, call Jarita Saylor at 256-603-4869 or Dot Putman at 256-216-1602.