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Rescuers cross borders to unite blind cows
Rescuers cross borders to unite blind cows
“…It started when Sweety, an
8-year-old Canadian cow with a hoof infection, was rescued…by a horse sanctuary
in Ontario.
Workers at Refuge RR put out the word to the small legion of folks devoted to
saving aging farm animals that she needed a permanent home.
Farm Sanctuary in New York is just
such a place & they had a 12-year-old Holstein named Tricia, who seemed
lonely…Cattle are herd animals & she was the only one at the shelter
without a partner.
‘It was exciting to think that by
giving Sweety a new life, we might also give Tricia another chance to enjoy her
own,’ said Susie Coston, national shelter director for the sanctuary.
Tricia, who was born blind, has been
at the Watkins Glen, N.Y., sanctuary since 2008…
There was red tape galore, medical
exams for Sweety, & finally a road trip to pick her up Feb. 4 at a
veterinary hospital in Lachute, northwest of Montreal.
Sweety arrived late that night…
The 2 cows mooed at each other from separate corrals before they were
united the next day.
Nose to nose, Sweety, tall &
bony with a white triangle patch on her forehead, bumped into Tricia, shorter
& thicker with black-&-white body swirls. They nuzzled one other.
It didn’t take long for them to
become BFFs (bovine friends forever), shelter spokeswoman Meredith Turner said.
Sweety is still bumping into things,
but Tricia often guides her clear of obstacles.
They eat & walk together & even bed
down in tandem.
Love may be blind, Turner said, but
for shelter workers, it was a matter of seeing & believing.”
Sue Manning
THE
ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Montreal Gazette
Feb.
15/2014
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