Cow crashes

[RichardSieg]

Backticks found where operator expected at /usr/local/share/cows/mech-and-cow line 10, near "^__^                             /   /'|  `"
	(Missing semicolon on previous line?)
Backslash found where operator expected at /usr/local/share/cows/mech-and-cow line 11, near ")\"
	(Missing operator before \?)
Backticks found where operator expected at /usr/local/share/cows/mech-and-cow line 12, at end of line
	(Missing semicolon on previous line?)
cowsay: Can't find string terminator "`" anywhere before EOF at /usr/local/share/cows/mech-and-cow line 12, <STDIN> line 3.

[tammoippen]

Apparently mech-and-cow has some issue - filtering it in say.