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COWS ARE COOL: LOVE ‘EM!

23.
Cows Love This 8 Years Old Girl

And She Loves ‘Em


        At just 8-years old, Brittani Burke of South Windsor in Connecticut, United States, is a cow fanatic. She just loves to be around the cows and work with them every day.
        Brittani owns four cows, and in between her time as a second-grader at Philip R. Smith School and helping out around her family's farm and nursery, she spends most of her free time training and caring for the animals.
        Her four cows are named Maddie, Molly, Milie and Manny. "I try to spend as much time with the cows as I can," Brittani says, as she scratched Maddie's belly with a stick.
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Humans are so embarrassingly egocentric. So many confuse an animal’s inability to communicate in a human way with not having thoughts or emotions at all. Thank goodness somebody is doing something to show otherwise.
        ~Betsy, San Marcos, TX, U.S.A.

        "I like how I can play with the animals and have fun with them, but sometimes I get frustrated," Brittani says. "If you don't have lots of patience you'll get very angry."
        And a 1,400-pound angry Maddie isn't easy to control when she's annoyed, but someone's always there to help Brittani.
        Brittani likes to compete with her cows in the shows in her state. She won Grand Champion Angus Female with Maddie this year. Her champion, 2-year-old Maddie, won five competitions this summer in various classes. But Brittani says, "I don't care if I win. I just want some nice cows."
        She's been showing cows since she was 2 years old, and each year she takes on more and more of the exhausting work it takes to get the cows ready for a show. The animals have to be trained to stand the right way, walk at the right pace, get used to people and keep their head up, not an easy feat when instinct tells them to keep it down for grazing.
        That's all before the beauty pageant part of the contest, where each cow has to be perfectly groomed, washed and combed. When it's all done Maddie is soft "like little cotton balls."
        She is taking more and more responsibility for the cows. She does all the washing right now. Every year she is taking a bigger and bigger step and learning more and more. And when she isn't working with Maddie or Molly, or Milie, or Manny, Brittani likes to dance, sing and ride horses.
Despite living in a city I totally want a cow!! A black and white and miniature cows!! I once lived next to a cow farm of some sorts for the summer in Texas! We would moo and they would stampede to the edge of the property close to the fences! We would feed them gourds and such. I don’t know why they’d always come when we called them. It was heaven!!! I guess I should find some sort of mountain man, so that we can own cows together!! I’m not a strict veg but trying hard to become one… and the cows I own would be my pets.!! But I sooo want a cow!!
        Mary J. Foley, San Jose, March 19, 2006,
        Brittani plans to keep on showing her animals, including 4-year-old Molly, Maddie's mother, who was "my first cow and my favorite."
        Eventually, she wants to work the family farm and keep participating in shows. But for now she'll keep learning and trying to raise the best cows she can.
        "It takes years to develop a herd. We've been working on this blood line for long time," she proudly explains.
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“They have emotional upheavals. When it is a miserable, cold day, they will all be miserable, but when it is nice and sunny, you can almost see them smiling. Cows use their body posture and vocal sounds to express a whole range of emotions, including contentment, interest, anger, and distress. They mourn the death of those they love, even shedding tears over their loss.”
        ~ Tim Sell (Chairman - National Farmers Union, United Kingdom)

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