Topper and Finn at the 2024 Sandwich Fair
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October 16, 2024
posted on
October 16, 2024
Seven times Owen ran off. Seven times I walked him back. Somewhere around number five, I nearly gave up
Topper wasn't being mean. He was being pushed, and nobody likes getting pushed around: not people, not dogs, and certainly not bovines. Push on a steer, and his instinct is to push back. When a steer pushes back, the steer wins—every time.
Last week a fifteen-year-old steer with a six-foot horn span backed off a trailer into my barnyard, and Curious Bleu — who has not hurried anywhere in three years — hurried.