Cow Proves Animals Love, Think, And Act

Photo Credit: Joan Bryden Photography http://www.wildcardwalks.co.uk/photo-galleries-farm-cattle.html

I just found a story here, on the globalanimal.org website, which is a wake up call for all animal lovers who still use dairy. Just like Deidra, the mother in this story demonstrated not only the love she had for her calf, but the complicated thought process she used in her attempt to save him:

By Holly Cheever DVM:

I would like to tell you a story that is as true as it is heartbreaking. When I first graduated from Cornell’s School of Veterinary Medicine, I went into a busy dairy practice in Cortland County. I became a very popular practitioner due to my gentle handling of the dairy cows. One of my clients called me one day with a puzzling mystery: his Brown Swiss cow, having delivered her fifth calf naturally on pasture the night before, brought the new baby to the…

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8 responses to “Cow Proves Animals Love, Think, And Act”

myveganfreedom

January 19, 2016

Truly gut-wrenching to read this story to the end, but what an eye-opener.

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Cathy

January 15, 2016

So sad 😦

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The Shameful Narcissist

January 14, 2016

It amazes me that people still think that animals are these unthinking automatons when we have so much to prove this isn’t so. There is not a divide between human and animal. It isn’t “either/or,” but this pervasive thought pattern maintains a horrendous status quo.

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First Night Design

January 14, 2016

Such a marvellous (and unsurprising) story. I can’t believe I missed it first time round.

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1. Violet of Violet’s Veg*n e-comics
  
  January 14, 2016
  
  It is amazing and heartbreaking. Please do share as widely as possible so that we can enlighten people on the tragedy of dairy farming. Thank you 🙂
  
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  1. First Night Design
    
    January 14, 2016
    
    Already tweeted earlier and scheduled another.
    
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    1. Violet of Violet’s Veg*n e-comics
      
      January 14, 2016
      
      Brilliant. Thank you 🙂
      
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rrrmelon

January 14, 2016

Beautiful 🙂

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