Sometimes life in Mountain City can only be understood by those who’ve been here awhile. Last week, a post showed up in NextDoor, “There are cows in front of a house on Maple Drive.”

According to the emoji response, this brought laughs. It’s just funny, seeing cows on a city street. Someone joked, “Did you check if they were microchipped?”

Until the rancher back behind Maple sent a particular bovine being to auction, there was no fence that would hold back a gal...