What do you think?

Lots of e-mails end up in spam folders and the receiver never sees the e-mail....Ok, enjoy the day...

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Ah, ok. Not that close a neighbors then

My parents moved from Boaz about a year before I was born. Mother still has family there.

You know, there have been a few cows I haven't been able to rescue -- due to a lack of funds or space -- and I'll probably regret it 'til my dying day. But I've never been sorry about the ones I've brought home.

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We bought Yo sight unseen, our first cow purchase. She was definitely a learning experience (she was grossly underweight, came with a Charolais calf she didn't want). I had to learn about her and how to bottle feed a calf and learn about her too, then she gave me a calf 9 months later. I got to see her being born--my neighbor actually helped with that.

Then I got Maggie who I thought looked ok, then we lost her.

My best was a trade of an Angus bull calf we had for Liza a 10 month old Jersey.

I can't count the Angus as a real purchase, we did buy them, but they always lived here.

Then there was Bones, who was skin and bones, pneumonia, ear infection, knee infection.

My husband was afraid when I came home with Bones, that he would die. He didn't want to bury another cow.

My sister told me that he didn't want me to go back to the sale, because he didn't want another cow that was going to die.

I think he took Maggie's death harder than me. I was the one that spent the night with her in the pasture, I was the one that would run out in the morning and make sure she wasn't laying on her side--and she often was. I did this for 3 weeks. He was the one that had to put the hip rings on her and lift her though. And the last few days she actually got herself up a few times.

Maybe I feel I have to make up for that, find a cow I can fix.

I look at them and feel sorry for them and want to help them. And then maybe it works out for the both of us.

If I had the money, and the knowledge, and the land, I would love to take these Jerseys that are unwanted.

I think our vet thinks I am a little crazy. He has been surprised at Bone's recovery and told me a did a really good job with him. He had also told me a few months back when I was sitting with Bones in the back of the pickup with his swollen and infected leg that I was a tender hearted person. I think that was a nice way of saying I was a sucker

I don't know where I am going with this, but I would love to fix the broken. I have thought about that Jersey in the sale barn more than once, and wish that I could have fixed her. I don't know that I could have, but I wish I could have.

Wow! That is quite a history. Kudos to you!

I'm working right now to place a soon-to-be dairy cull with a Hindu cow sanctuary in WV. She's my favorite cow in the herd that I milk. She didn't breed back last time, and has been milked almost 2 years at this point. Her milk has finally dropped off to the point where she's gotta go! I'd love to take her myself, but I have so little land, and the torrential rains we've had this fall has left it REALLY muddy! So I was very happy that the sanctuary is willing to take her in. Just waiting for the vet to get her tests done so she can get her traveling papers for interstate transport ...

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"I love all of this mud," said no one, ever.

Karen, I love her, she has the same look as my Norman, it is always such a crap shoot when getting cows but she clearly wears a halter so has been handled. She just looks like she needs TLC..I am no expert but I personally love her!!