COWS ARE COOL: LOVE ‘EM!
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Cows - Fussy About Cleanliness
By Sarah Rath
The summers could be hot in Wisconsin’s Jackson County, where my family spent two weeks each summer vacationing on my grandmother’s farm.
I was accustomed to swimming everyday, and found myself desperately looking for a place to cool off when I remembered the huge wooden water tank in the barnyard. I hopped into that tank and had a good cooling off, and thought nothing more about it – until my uncle started asking questions.
He wanted to know why his thirsty cows were standing around the water tank just looking, not drinking.
My uncle had to drain the tank and clean it in order to get them to drink, and that was the end of my barnyard pool.
(Rath, Sarah. About Cows. Minocqua, WI: NorthWood Press, Inc., 1987)
Cows - Fussy About Cleanliness
By Sarah Rath
The summers could be hot in Wisconsin’s Jackson County, where my family spent two weeks each summer vacationing on my grandmother’s farm.
I was accustomed to swimming everyday, and found myself desperately looking for a place to cool off when I remembered the huge wooden water tank in the barnyard. I hopped into that tank and had a good cooling off, and thought nothing more about it – until my uncle started asking questions.
He wanted to know why his thirsty cows were standing around the water tank just looking, not drinking.
My uncle had to drain the tank and clean it in order to get them to drink, and that was the end of my barnyard pool.
(Rath, Sarah. About Cows. Minocqua, WI: NorthWood Press, Inc., 1987)
When Krishna and Balarama, with the strength of Their legs, crawled in the muddy places created in Vraja by cow dung and cow urine, Their crawling resembled the crawling of serpents, and the sound of Their ankle bells was very charming. Very much pleased by the sound of other people’s ankle bells, They used to follow these people as if going to Their mothers, but when They saw that these were other people, They became afraid and returned to Their real mothers, Yasoda and Rohini.
Dressed with muddy earth mixed with cow dung and cow urine, the babies looked very beautiful, and when They went to Their mothers, both Yasoda and Rohini picked Them up with great affection, embraced Them and allowed Them to suck the milk flowing from their breasts.(Bhagavatam 10.8.22-23)