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04-21-2017, 11:31 AM
This calf was adopted by horse in an (adorable) case of mistaken identity
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We're all for interspecies friendship, but this one seems more of a case of mistaken identity.
Moonshine, an old-ish mare who resides on a farm in the south-west of Queensland, Australia, was found tending to a random orphaned calf — barely a week old — by cattle grazier Gerda Glasson.
"I'm thinking the calf must've got lost and I was looking around for the mother cow, but [the] calf got up and started walking over to Moonshine," Glasson told ABC News (http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-04-19/orphaned-calf-finds-unlikely-foster-mum-in-old-mare/8454772?smid=Page:+ABC+News-Facebook_Organic&WT.tsrc=Facebook_Organic&sf71671287=1).*
"Moonshine put her **se down as if to say, 'this is mine,' and the calf started trying to drink."*
Moonshine has never raised a foal, although she did birth one a decade ago, which died. Maybe she needs a fresh opportunity in the calf. But because she doesn't produce any milk, her human owners have stepped in to feed the horse-loving baby cow. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/04/21/horse-calf-adoption-mistake/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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We're all for interspecies friendship, but this one seems more of a case of mistaken identity.
Moonshine, an old-ish mare who resides on a farm in the south-west of Queensland, Australia, was found tending to a random orphaned calf — barely a week old — by cattle grazier Gerda Glasson.
"I'm thinking the calf must've got lost and I was looking around for the mother cow, but [the] calf got up and started walking over to Moonshine," Glasson told ABC News (http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-04-19/orphaned-calf-finds-unlikely-foster-mum-in-old-mare/8454772?smid=Page:+ABC+News-Facebook_Organic&WT.tsrc=Facebook_Organic&sf71671287=1).*
"Moonshine put her **se down as if to say, 'this is mine,' and the calf started trying to drink."*
Moonshine has never raised a foal, although she did birth one a decade ago, which died. Maybe she needs a fresh opportunity in the calf. But because she doesn't produce any milk, her human owners have stepped in to feed the horse-loving baby cow. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/04/21/horse-calf-adoption-mistake/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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