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Tiny Unwanted Cow Gets Laughed At During Auction, Until One Woman Sees Through That And Falls In Love

When Susie Coston who works at an animal rescue saw Blitzen the tiny calf at a cattle auction, she knew she had to save him from certain death. “They called him trash and joked about … no one bid on him,” Coston, who is the national shelter director for Farm Sanctuary, wrote on their website.

Blitzen weighed only 37 pounds, and could have fitted into a bowl.

That very day she was rescuing two other unhealthy calves who came from massive dairy farms in Pennsylvania and New York, called Lawrence and Alexander. “Calves often arrive at the stockyard too weak to stand, dehydrated, and without having received vital colostrum from their mothers,” Coston explained. “This leaves them vulnerable to infection and disease, which quickly sets in.”

Blitzen was only one or two days old, and together with Lawrence and Alexander, he was rushed to an animal hospital at Cornell University. All of this happened in 2010, and even though Blitzen had to be treated for pneumonia and needed a blood transfusion, all three of the tiny cows survived. Alexander died after five happy years at a sanctuary, due to complications coming from his rough start in life.

Nowadays Blitzen spends his days playing with Lawrence, and at a weight of a couple of thousand pounds, he is one strong cow!

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When Susie Coston saw Blitzen the tiny calf at a cattle auction, she knew she had to save him

“They called him trash and joked about … no one bidding on him”

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Blitzen weighed only 37 pounds, and could have fitted into a bowl

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“Calves often arrive at the stockyard too weak to stand, dehydrated and without…vital colostrum”

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“This leaves them vulnerable to infection and disease, which quickly sets in”

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Blitzen himself was only 1 or 2 days old, and was rushed to an animal hospital

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He had to be treated for pneumonia and needed a blood transfusion

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All of this happened in 2010, and Blitzen is still going strong

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At a weight of a couple of thousand pounds, now he is one strong cow!

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Barbara Baxendale 7 years ago

These cattle auctions are barbaric with no thought to the poor animals welfare !!

20points

Cat Meow 7 years ago

I get that farmers treat their animals different from how non-farmers would treat the same animals, but calling a calf "trash" and joking about them is horrible. The past owner of Blitzen (and Lawrence and Alexander) should be called trash for treating these babies so poorly

14points

Melissa Hughes 7 years ago

Not all farmers treat animals differently from non-farmers. Some people treat animals differently than others. It isn't no more about farming than it is about vegetarianism.

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Breezy Sally 7 years ago

This is mainly due to mother cows at dairy farms being separated from their baby's instantly after birth. One way to stop it? Go vegan.

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