Daily Archives: December 8, 2011

Sometimes everything that should go right goes wrong.

Picture an ordinary mutt of a cow, black with a white face, probably a Hereford Angus cross.  In cow terms she’s old, seven, maybe eight years on this planet.  Local parlance labels her a gummer, a concise way of explaining that she no longer has many, if any, teeth left with which to chew.  Without teeth she can’t properly grind and mash up her feed, thus opening herself to malnourishment, which in turn makes her prone to sickliness.  On top of all that, she can’t see well anymore, though this is no one’s fault in particular.  Actually, she’s basically blind.  None of this is a surprise, because we bought her that way. (more…)