'The Secret Life of Cows' Aims To Show Animals As Thinking, Feeling Beings
Farmer Rosamund Young's book will charm people who want to lap up more evidence that animals have personalities, but may not warm hearts of animal lovers who don't eat meat.
A slim mahogany-colored cow, Dolly was an attentive mother to her first four offspring, all boys, at Kite's Nest farm in Worcestershire, England.
Then Dolly II, a pale-colored girl, was born and became the recipient of that bovine love.
In The Secret Life of Cows, published this week in the U.S. by Penguin Press, farmer Rosamund Young tells the story of what happened when Dolly II grew up and gave birth herself.
Dolly II's calf was born dead and her womb was displaced in the process, requiring a
