20.
A Loyal And Loving Goat
While doing his daily farm work, Farmer Noel Osborne in Benalla, Australia was accidentally knocked into a pile of manure, shattering his hip.
The injury rendered him immobile in his isolated farm. He yelled and yelled for help, but no one was around. He might have died if not for his faithful pet goat who took care of him for five days until help arrived.
According to the Herald Sun, Mr. Osborne, 78, endured storms, cold nights and hot days as he lay incapacitated in the open field with severe injuries. He was kept sheltered by huddling with his goat ‘Mandy’. For nourishment, he subsisted on milk from the goat.
The only thing she didn't do was call for an ambulance.
Mr. Osborne recalls, "That evening the goat came and I was able to get hold of an old bottle within my reach and I milked her into the bottle and I was able to have a drink. She slept there beside me every night I was there."
Finally after 5 days, some friends stopped by Mr. Osborne's remote property and found him weak and delirious but still alive thanks to his four-legged pal.
Thanks to an ample supply of goat's milk, Mr. Osborne's bad experience did not end in fatality. He was taken by ambulance to Benalla and District Memorial Hospital and treated.
(From Melbourne Herald-Sun, October 30, 2002)
The injury rendered him immobile in his isolated farm. He yelled and yelled for help, but no one was around. He might have died if not for his faithful pet goat who took care of him for five days until help arrived.
According to the Herald Sun, Mr. Osborne, 78, endured storms, cold nights and hot days as he lay incapacitated in the open field with severe injuries. He was kept sheltered by huddling with his goat ‘Mandy’. For nourishment, he subsisted on milk from the goat.
The only thing she didn't do was call for an ambulance.
Mr. Osborne recalls, "That evening the goat came and I was able to get hold of an old bottle within my reach and I milked her into the bottle and I was able to have a drink. She slept there beside me every night I was there."
Finally after 5 days, some friends stopped by Mr. Osborne's remote property and found him weak and delirious but still alive thanks to his four-legged pal.
Thanks to an ample supply of goat's milk, Mr. Osborne's bad experience did not end in fatality. He was taken by ambulance to Benalla and District Memorial Hospital and treated.
(From Melbourne Herald-Sun, October 30, 2002)
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Anyone who says that life matters less to an animal than it does to us has not held in his hands an animal fighting for its life. The whole of the being of the animal is thrown into that fight, without reserve. When you say that the fight lacks a dimension of intellectual or imaginative horror, I agree. It is not the mode of being animals to have an intellectual horror: their whole being is in the living flesh...I urge you to walk, flank to flank, beside the beast that is prodded down the chute to his executioner. |
