Two Blind Cows 350 Miles Apart Come Together to Form a Beautiful Friendship (story & video)

http://www.care2.com/causes/two-blind-cows-350-miles-apart-come-together-to-form-a-beautiful-friendship.html

by Abigail Geer February 26, 2014 7:00 pm





Starting her life at a dairy farm in Canada, Sweety was kept inside a gloomy industrial building where she was denied access to the outside world. Once she was old enough she was entered into production and, like most dairy cows, she was forced to endure a relentless cycle of insemination, pregnancy and birth.

Despite giving birth to many calves, every one was torn away from her moments after being born. Her sons were sold for veal and her daughters were destined to the same fate as her.

Cows are usually considered ‘spent’ after just four years after which they are sent to slaughter, but Sweety was used for 8 long years before a foot infection left her lame and she was considered of little, if any, value to the farm that owned her. Sweety’s last two pregnancies had also seen the birth of twins which is unfavorable to the dairy industry as twins are usually smaller and weaker, and female calves when born twin to a bull are usually sterile.



Sweety was bound for the slaughterhouse, which is an incredibly terrifying experience for any animal, but even more so for one who is blind as their heightened senses make the piercing cries of their herd mates, the abrupt clanking of machinery and the stench of blood too overwhelming to bear.

FULL story at link.