Udderly heartwarming.
A newborn calf was rescued from bone-chilling weather when a Kentucky family brought the shivering animal inside their house — and it quickly curled up on the couch and made itself at home next to the family’s tot.
Macey Sorrell said the baby cow, born Saturday on her family’s Mount Sterling farm amid single-digit temperatures, was struggling in the freezing outdoors, prompting her to bring the chilled animal inside.
After being fed, cleaned and fluffed, the calf swiftly snuggled up on the couch with Sorrell’s two young napping children and nodded off.
“They crawled up next to her like it was just the most normal thing,” the mom of two said Thursday, noting that her 3-year-old son named the young bovine Sally, after a character from “Cars,” his favorite movie.
Touched by the heartwarming moment, Sorrell snapped a few pictures and posted them on social media.
One adorable photo shows the sleeping calf snuggled next to the dozing toddler on one side of the couch, with Sorrell’s daughter sprawled out asleep on the other. In another shot, the young boy is seen snoozing face-down on the rug, with his arm draped around the nestled animal.
With roughly three dozen cows on their land, the family will occasionally bring them inside — but after losing a calf to frostbite last winter, they moved fast to help Sally upon seeing her in distress.
“She was just frozen. Her umbilical cord looked like a popsicle,” Sorrell recalled of the newborn.
“It was just frozen. When we brought her in, she had ice on her. The afterbirth was still on her, I had to wipe all that off. I took out the blow dryer and warmed her up, and got her all fluffed out.”
The cuddly calf was reunited with her mother the next morning, Sorrell said, and is doing well.
With Post wires.
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