We woke up this morning to find these two Elk cows munching on our cotoneasters in the front yard:

The plastic planter on the flagstone...

was thrown at the cow in the yard by Kathie in a effort to try and get her to leave - to no avail. The cotoneasters seem to be a favored food. Ours are big enough that even after being munched on for 45 minutes or so, they didn't look much worse for the experience. The cow eventually left by way of how she came in, which was to walk through a wire barrier our neighbor had erected and jump the fence into our yard. Our neighbor chased her out of her yard by opening a gate and shooting a stream of water at her with the hose.