We know the benefits of therapy dogs and the remarkable healing of therapy horses, but cattle deserve the same recognition: their healing qualities have been largely ignored...until now.

Training calves is a lot like training children. Both have short attention spans, and both would rather play than work, as I discovered at the 2024 Miles Smith Farm camp.

What's the point of a cow experience for people who can't see the cows? I said yes anyway, figuring I'd learn something. That part I got right.

I gave this talk because a cow taught me something no human ever could.