What a Sassy Cow
By Susan
@HazySue (39265)
Gouverneur, New York
August 25, 2019 2:07pm CST
I saw this image on Pixabay and thought to myself, "What a sassy cow". Now, that's my kind of cow. I love that she is sticking her tongue out in an "I don't care" kind of attitude.
Years ago I had a cow, well a few cows living in the field behind my house. There was one that came to the fence every time I would go outside to hand clothes on the clothes line.
After a while I would talk to her and she would softly moo back. We used to carry on some pretty good conversations. I would then go to the fence and she would let me rub her head.
One day I was out and noticed she was no longer there at the fence. I saw my neighbor and asked about her and was told she had been buttered for meat. They offered us some of it but I just couldn't take it.
I had started thinking of her as more than just a animal meant for meat, I started thinking of her as more of a pet. It was a while before I could eat beef again.
Have you ever felt like this about an animal that has been brought up to end up on a dinner table?
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@kobesbuddy (78833)
• East Tawas, Michigan
25 Aug 19
I feel this way, when Jay hangs a deer carcass in his garage! My sister raised two pigs, from the time they were babies. They became pets! Yet, the purpose for buying them in the first place, was so their family would have pork for the freezer. My sister cried her heart out over this:(
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@sallypup (69176)
• Centralia, Washington
25 Aug 19
@kobesbuddy My husband is not as squeamish as I- he butchered the turkeys that we raised. I'll never forget the tom turkey snagging a grocery receipt out of my pocket.
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@HazySue (39265)
• Gouverneur, New York
27 Aug 19
@kobesbuddy I have a hard time with not making animals of all kinds my pet. I would never be a farmer or rancher.
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@kobesbuddy (78833)
• East Tawas, Michigan
25 Aug 19
@sallypup It's sad when near the end, they're fighting for their life!
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@MainerMikeBrown (1373)
• Bridgton, Maine
25 Aug 19
I can see how it would turn you off from eating beef for while, Susan.
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@sallypup (69176)
• Centralia, Washington
25 Aug 19
I had a terrible supper when I was a teenager. I'd taught a soft coated Jersey steer to walk with me on a halter and then one night, there was a roast on the table. Dad told me that it was indeed Teddy Roosevelt. I didn't eat meat that night.
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@andriaperry (118793)
• Anniston, Alabama
25 Aug 19
That is why I am a vegetable farm.
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@kobesbuddy (78833)
• East Tawas, Michigan
27 Aug 19
@HazySue I agree, I couldn't kill an animal, ever!
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@crazyhorseladycx (39503)
• United States
25 Aug 19
i love cows :) they've such personalities. sadly i've butchered quite a few 's i used to raise my own. sold many, too, fer the same purpose. i can't eat beef now 'n 've great guilt o'er the past fer such. i did keep a couple who finally perished from ol' age. they were like 2 big pups. one i believe thought 'twas a horse? i could put a saddle'n that steer, he'd beg fer a turn'n the round pen 'n loved to ride 'top the flatbed trailer once the hay'd been 'nloaded. he 'twas quite the character 'n i refused to eat 'r sell him.
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@LindaOHio (222319)
• United States
25 Aug 19
I could never eat an animal I was on a first-name basis with.
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