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| Aunt Dotty ! |
We went to
bed on Friday night with the heart rending noise of a herd of cows on the farm
just above us, crying out in enormous distress.
This has happened before
and we assume it’s because their calves have just been taken away from them.
The noise
was incredible with one cow, even more distressed then the rest, sounding
out above her sisters.
The calling
was still continuing on Saturday morning when our rescued cow Aunt Dotty,
thankfully out of the cruelties of the commercial dairy herd, came up from our
bottom fields and stood listening to these anguished cries and calling out
herself in sympathy.
Today,
Monday, the cries although a lot less subdued can still clearly, and
poignantly, be heard from here.
What has
happened to their calves by now does not bear thinking about. And we call
ourselves a nation of animal lovers.
