| Babe is a
Holstein heifer whose owner decided to butcher her because when
she was in heat “she would bellow loudly all night and
keep the whole neighborhood up.” Maybe, she was just lonely.
We haven’t heard a peep out of her since she came to live
with us. Chelsea, a
blue ribbon goat, failed to get pregnant one season, so her
owner decided to send her and Hadley, who had the misfortune
to be borne the wrong sex to the market.
Clover is a gray Arabian mare
that was being taken on the last ride of her life. Rodeoed
when her young bones were too tender, she was a sad mess of
bruises, cuts, scrapes including a lump so large our vet thought,
she had been hit with a pipe. We found her skinny and dejected
in a corner of a killing pen with mucous pouring from her
nose. Today she frolics with her pals and shows off that free-floating
gallop for which Arabians are cherished.
Swanee, a Hampshire pig, once
so diseased that she was too small to slaughter. Today she
weighs 800 pounds. |
