An American woman has been sentenced to jail for walking her pet calf in Moscow's Red Square.
A Russian court Wednesday ordered 34-year-old Alicia Day to spend 13 days in jail and pay a $200 fine.
Day was arrested in the Russian capital after reportedly trying to take her pet calf, named "Doctor Cow," for a walk near the Kremlin. "I bought the calf so that it wouldn't be eaten. I decided to take him to such a beautiful place and show him the country," she said, according to the Tass state news agency.
According to the case file, she reportedly had shouted the slogan "Animals are not food" in Red Square, where public events are prohibited.Local news media reported that Day had been in Russia since Jan. 21 and worked for an animal protection organization.
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