I had the sweet fortune of waking up the other day to find a newly born calf asleep behind my cabin. The little bundle stayed in basically the same position for about 3 hours...fast asleep in the sunshine...opening an eye now and again or repositioning her head. Finally, the mama came around mooing insistantly and very loudly and stopped about 20 feet away from her baby. The friend that I was talking with on the phone said the mama stops a ways away on purpose so that the calf has to actually use her new legs to get up and walk to her. Well, the little gal got up on those brand spanking new legs, wobbled a wee bit and then in a drunken weave made her way over to her mama for breakfast.
Oh happy day!
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