A revelation....

Mosts of my posts consist of nothing much but pictures. However, this one is different... no pictures at all...

I've had a stressful last few week just prepping for finals which I've already done three of and have three more left to take next week. Not to mention, I'm "moving" in 2 weeks and hog hunting comes in tomorrow and all of our hunting spots are under water. I've been getting back in to the horse show world coming out with 3 first places and one second in a 5 week time period and a show in Frisco City tomorrow. So, tonight I took a night off. A night to just solely focus on me, my friends, and of course the boy friend lol. It was a good night.

So, tonight I came home around 9:30pm and find that dad is still up and is going out... Alone? NOT! Lol I am going with him. He's had a cow that has been sick now for a day or two... I'm not even sure how long. As we pulled up to the cow I looked at it and watched it as it struggled for life. My heart hurt for it, but after all it is just a cow. And then, I saw it... another cow that looked exactly the same as the other one... standing off in the background. I thought for a little while that it was all alone... But it wasn't... she was there with her friend... the dying one... We worked with the sick cow for almost an hour pushing and pulling, trying to get her up... when we had finally given up Dad went to the back of his truck to get another chain, and what would have normally been a skidish cow, walked up to her dying friend and nudged her, over and over. Just like a mother would when her child has fallen off a bike. Telling her to get up. It was like I could here her telling her friend to get up, give it one more shot, try harder. The cow never left her friend through the entire time. I finally asked dad where the rest of the cows were. He said that they were shut up on the other side. Apparently this one cow had fought to stay with her friend, and he had let her. The final decision was to put the animal out of it misery... the bff cow remained through that, too. She said her goodbyes as her friend was hauled off.

I rode beside dad silently thinking about things. My entire life I've heard the argument that animals do or they don't have souls. And you all have your own opinions, but I do know that animals feel and they hurt just like we do. You all may think that I am crazy and that's ok, because just like you I am entitled to my own opinion.

I wondered what the world would be like if humans cared as much as that cow did. If people never betrayed each other and never left their friends in their times of need... would the world be better if we were all cows???