Gregory curls up with family’s calf on the sofa one recent frigid night – Courtesy of his mother, Macey Sorrell
Over last weekend, a Kentucky farming family welcomed a new calf into a frigid world of single digit temperatures, and quickly realized it wasn’t going to last the night.
So being a mother as well as a farmer, Macey Sorrell decided to bring the calf into their home where she was certain it would be okay. Falling asleep on the couch next to her two children, Sorrell snapped a photo that has the internet fawning.
On the last Saturday in January, Sorrell and her husband Tanner went to check on their pregnant cow as dusk gathered around their property in Mount Sterling. To their surprise, she had already given birth.
“She was just frozen. Her umbilical cord looked like a popsicle,” Sorrell said. “It was just frozen.”
They decided, having lost a calf last year to frostbite, to take precautionary measures.
“When we brought her in, she had ice on her. The afterbirth was still on her, I had to wipe all that off,” Sorrell said. “I took out the blow dryer and warmed her up, and got her all fluffed out.”
It was somehow sort of a surprise and not a surprise that their son, 3-year-old Gregory, went to cuddle with the calf who had been placed on the couch—as if it were “just the most normal thing.”
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Sorrell said she and her family are used to bringing the occasional farm animal into their house, and it’s clearly rubbed off on their children.
Gregory named the calf Sally, who after her harrowing night, rejoined her mother in the paddock after sunrise, healthy and ready to explore her new world.
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