One of my close childhood friends is now a large animal veterinarian assistant, working with cows, horses and other large animals. She lives on her family’s farm, where she’s recently begun bottle feeding a one-month-old, 200-pound calf named Bessie. Farmers don’t usually name cattle, but Bessie’s destiny is greater.
Cows have to bottle fed when their mammas die, so my friend has become a surrogate momma to little orphan Bessie. Bessie loves it when my friend gives her bottles.
Bessie also loves having the underside of her neck scratched. My friend figures that calves usually get nuzzling and other TLC from their mammas, so it’s only natural that a calf would enjoy getting a little bit of scratching and cuddling from her human mamma (and her human mamma’s smalltowngirl friend).
In this shot, Bessie’s getting her hips scratched by my friend. Seriously, how happy does Bessie look right here?
My grandparents had a cattle farm, but I was too young then to remember much about it now. Many thanks to my friend for teaching me so much about cows on Saturday, and for letting me come out to play with her and Bessie. Thanks to Bessie for the adorable photo opps.
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This is one of my favorite posts! Great job!
Love this post! And I love how you use the camera. Thank you for sharing!
Thanks everyone – especially thanks to Jody for letting me come out to play!