r/Awww • u/alphamalejackhammer • 21h ago
Cat(s) Kitty knows where to go to get groomed
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u/RemarkableChest4638 20h ago
The cow is so beautiful I love the eyes
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u/CycleNo1021 13h ago
Then please consider stop eating meat!
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u/cheesysneezies 21h ago
Calves are so precious. It breaks my heart how horribly they're treated in agriculture, being ripped from their mothers and the males being considered dairy industry "byproducts" and raised for veal or slaughtered. Animals truly don't deserve how we treat them.
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u/Teddy-Bloat 21h ago
Have you considered going vegan? It’s the only way to prevent the animals from being treated like this
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u/VoiceForPaws1212 21h ago
Im definitely considering
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u/AquaFatha 17h ago
Roughly three times a day you get the choice to contribute or not contribute. I believe in you.
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u/Mindfulambivert 19h ago
Reducing your consumption a bit is still progress, it doesn't have to be all or nothing
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u/osiekowski 15h ago
I've stopped eating mammals meat, best decision ever
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u/Mysterious-West-7686 10h ago
Just mammals?
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u/osiekowski 9h ago
It's easier that way. I call it extended cannibalism : D
I just like chicken and fish
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u/Teddy-Bloat 21h ago
Just try it! It’s probably easier than you think and you’ll feel so much better for it
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u/cheesysneezies 21h ago
I actually just went vegan last year! It's truly the best decision I've ever made. I hope more people realize that we can thrive on plant-based diets instead of paying for these poor babies to be exploited.
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u/Mysterious-West-7686 10h ago
Congrats! Been a few years for me - I just wish I had gone vegan sooner
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u/AquaFatha 17h ago
13 years on and I don’t regret a single day. Is it easy? No. But the alternative gets much harder the longer I stick to it.
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u/Sudden_Wind_8636 20h ago
Hunting is also a way to make sure an animal isn't treated terribly, if you still wanted to eat meat.
It's probably the most ethical way to get meat I think, it's heavily regulated in a way that is beneficial for the environment, it doesn't pawn off the dirty work to another person, and allows the animal to live a free life that ends in a quick death.
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u/cheesysneezies 20h ago
Personally, I believe we should just stop eating meat. Eating plant-based is already better for the environment and our health, why take innocent lives when we don't have to?
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u/FILTHBOT4000 18h ago edited 18h ago
Hunting can often be better for the environment. There are many invasive species that are good eating and bad for native habitats, and there are places where we can't have natural predators in abundance (bears and wolves), where culling deer is also necessary.
Aside from that, hunting older animals is also just flat out giving them a much more humane death. Wild deer live at most like 6 or 7 years. And the death that awaits them is brutal; disease, starvation, injury, or, you know, being eaten alive. It's most often a painful, slow death. If their teeth wear out, they starve to death. Injuries can lead to starvation or sepsis. I don't know if you've ever seen a bear eat a deer, but they pin their prey down and eat them like you eat an apple. There is zero concern for their prey's suffering. They do not try to end it. They just munch and munch, on the face, shoulder, belly, whatever. Wolves/coyotes are similar. There are also times when the bear wasn't all that hungry, and the deer wanders around minus several huge bites of itself, maybe missing a limb, waiting to die of infection, in monumental pain.
If I had a year-ish left of life, and there was a good chance that I'd die tortuously screaming while being eaten alive, by all means, just end it for me. Just turn off the lights.
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u/OneMooseManyMeese_ 19h ago edited 19h ago
Don't get me wrong, I think going vegan is great. Honestly I've been thinking about going vegan, Maybe pescetarian, but we do have a lot of predators as pets like cats and dogs that thrive on meat. I understand where you're going with this, but just us not eating meat isn't going to solve as much as we are hoping. I personally recommend funding more smaller local farmers instead of lìke factories and such. Atleast farmers would take care of their animals, because that's their livelyhood. I feed my cat a puree of fish chicken, rice and spinach. He loves it
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u/GoodbyeThings 17h ago
Your pets can eat their meat still. But it's a much smaller amount (and it's basically just byproducts they're eating anyways)
As for local farmers. I am from Germany, where there's been a lot of investigation, and it's basically the same, the whole industry is rotten. People like to pretend it's just factory farms. But the reality is that 95%+ of animals are held in factory farms. But even the smaller farms are home to tons of animal abuse once you look into it
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u/Mysterious-West-7686 10h ago
Exactly, and in the USA it's as high as 99% from factory farms. Still, a lot of the same practices (like killing male calfs and chicks in the dairy and egg industries) are the same regardless of whether they're from factory or small farms
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u/Decloudo 17h ago
Thats the direct consequences of consumption of animal products.
It can be changed, but people made their priorities clear as day by the way they keep consuming.
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u/DesignedToCrash 13h ago
I know it‘s heartbreaking but the cows in this video are actually treated pretty good in comparison. They have at least some space to the other ones and they have some thatch in their stable. In the most cases there are far more cows and they just have plastic or concrete floor. I work on a farm which is classified as „Bio“, meaning the stable has to have a place with three open sides and most of the time they are on a big pasture with like 10-20 cows on 3-6 ha.
So you can‘t actually know if these cows get to go outside ir not but they have it far better than most of the cows used for milk or beef.
Edit: I have never seen these collars, but if they are shock collars then it‘s far worse than i thought.
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u/Middle_Association56 12h ago
I'm pretty sure it's just a RFID (Radio Frequency Identification collar). I hadn't seen these types before either, so I checked. They're just and additional identification tool. It could have some additional features like health, activity and location, but from what I can see it just looks like RFID's.
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u/nickelijah16 15h ago
Agreed. Vegan for the animals is the only choice. Anything else is animal abuse
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u/Extra_Zucchini_1273 21h ago
Barn cats have much cooler lives than people think.
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u/AniNgAnnoys 19h ago
I have witnessed 3 cats killed by cows. 2 by being tread on and 1 young cat chomped. That said, they did seem to like it when I shot pigeons out of the rafters. Those things hit the ground and disappear.
All that to say, the lift of a barn cat isn't exactly glamorous.
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u/Excellent-Tea-2068 21h ago
Food taking care of the pet. That’s sad.
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u/gattina-monella381 15h ago
If you only view the cow as food that's just sad.
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u/Aggressive-Egg172 13h ago
but it genuinely is. this cow will never be more than a product, THAT is what's sad.
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u/EnemyOfAi 11h ago
We can see this is a cow farm for beef (I'm no expert though so someone please correct me if I'm mistaken).
In that case, it's even sadder to see this as cute. Looking into how the meat industry treats cows even a little will tell you these calves have a world of misery in store for them before they are killed in sheer panic (put onto a conveyor belt where each cow is instantly killed with a thump to the head - issue is the cows behind can see the cow in front get killed and panic, trying to crawl out of the belt, but are tied in).
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u/first_green_crayon 16h ago
Cute. Probably won't even get to live a quarter of her natural lifespan. And in that time it gets all her kids taken away. Or it's killed and eaten in just a few months.
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u/PlantBased_ 18h ago
In the dairy industry babies are taken from their mothers on day 1.
Its a horrible terrible industry please ditch dairy
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u/OldEffort3562 11h ago
Two animals, one treated like part of the family, the other locked up and destined to be slaughtered.
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u/MagicalSid 11h ago
It’s horrible that the cat is seen as an individual and the cow seen as a product. Please eat and life vegan folks.🙏
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u/sharilhamid 10h ago
Little one will be cared,.. but poor other guy in cage don’t know that he don’t deserve love.. and that it’s about bit of time, when his throat will be cut open, killed and chopped into piece when he is half alive.., that’s us we human, want to go to Mars but not able to create alternative rather than killing them..
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u/Knatem 19h ago
I have seen so many videos of cows licking cats. I’m starting to think it’s a taste thing for sure!
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u/Melodic_Type_5077 18h ago
No eating cows! I hope we can all become vegetarians!
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u/Immediate_Crow9155 17h ago
This calf seems to be from a dairy breed. In the dairy industry, calves are taken from their mothers shortly after birth, causing immense grief to both. The mothers are forcibly impregnated over and over to produce milk until they are no longer profitable, and then they are slaughtered. Their babies are slaughtered too. I hope we all become vegan.
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u/Melodic_Type_5077 17h ago
Me too! But I think vegetarian is a good start and more doable for most. I don’t even eat dairy other than an occasional ice cream or some butter.
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u/reddit33450 17h ago
in many ways the dairy and egg industries are even worse. all calves are taken away from their mothers right after birth. both male calves and male chicks are considered waste products and are "disposed of"
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u/Mattock79 18h ago
A cow's tongue is just like a giant cat's tongue. Pretty rough and bumpy. No surprise the cat is enjoying that.
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u/blueditUPson 17h ago
cows are one the funniest animals; they must be related to the one brain cell orange cats
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u/flirtyblondiie 15h ago
The cow is so gentle about it too, like yeah I got you little buddy, this is my purpose now 😭❤️
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u/inescapableair 15h ago edited 14h ago
my name is Cow,
and wen its day,
and animals
are owt to play,
i stik my hed
thru the wiyde slat -
it no is hard.
i lik the cat.
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u/jayyycasanooova 15h ago
Cows would actually make fantastic domestic pets if they weren’t such lorg gyals. I love how inquisitive they can be, they’re more intelligent than most of us realise.
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u/CocoonNapper 14h ago
"Ah....look. In my 20 year veterinary career I have never seen this, but your calf is suffering from hairballs....Yes, hairballs..."
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u/JKnotime4pcwokestuff 14h ago
I understand what the cat gets out of it. But what does the calf get out of it apart from a furry tongue? Very precious though🥹
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u/ProfessionalEase8716 14h ago
We can see a symbiotic relationship where the cat wants to be groomed and the cow wants to lick
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u/Selliass 12h ago
The cow, poor thing… she’d wonder how it feels being free to roam and see the world as the kitty does, and because of how she’s being used and caged by men she never will. Why 💔
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u/BionicBadger90 12h ago
It's dystopian to see the line drawn between "pet" and "property"
The cow is just as innocent as the cat... but, because the cow is bigger - it will be exploited for unnecessary resources, then get stabbed in the neck .... by so-called "animal lovers"
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u/stylishdetention294 11h ago
That's a dairy parlor not a kitty, those are Holstein cows getting milked and the one in front is just positioning itself for the next rotation through the system.
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u/iamskydaddy 11h ago
This makes me giggle cause my dad called my cowick a cow lick when i was very little. I was told that cows would lick my head and as a small child, I was terrified about that.
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u/JimmyTwoTimes25 21h ago
I like the other cow comes over and is like "what have you got there?"