Woman adopts 90lb cow from petting zoo

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A woman has adopted a 90lb cow from a petting zoo - which sits on her sofa and gets taken for walks round the neighbourhood.  Mina Alali, 26, said she saw the "sad" 90lb calf in a small pen and claims he was shut away 24 hours a day without any home comforts.

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00:00 - Moo.

00:01 - I've been keeping Moo and Merlin pretty separate

00:03 just because I wanted Moo to be cleared by the vet.

00:06 But Merlin has seen Moo from a distance and ooh.

00:10 Be nice Merlin.

00:14 No Merlin.

00:16 It's definitely something Merlin still needs to adapt to.

00:20 I think Merlin has felt like an only child

00:22 and pigs are very territorial.

00:24 So we're being super cautious

00:26 and very slow with socialization.

00:28 But I figured let's have Merlin tell us

00:30 how he feels about Moo 'cause he knows.

00:33 - Yes.

00:34 No.

00:35 - Do you like the rats?

00:36 - Yes.

00:38 - Do you like Moo?

00:39 Yeah, those are the rats.

00:41 No, no, no Merlin.

00:42 No, no, no Merlin.

00:43 Merlin, Merlin.

00:45 Do you like Moo?

00:46 Merlin.

00:49 Do you like Moo?

00:52 Do you like Moo?

00:53 Do you like Moo?

00:56 - No.

00:58 - Oh.

00:58 It's time to feed my cow.

01:02 Let me show you how I do it.

01:03 Alex and I rescued him on Saturday morning.

01:06 And for about a month that he had been

01:08 at this horrible petting zoo,

01:11 they were only feeding him whole milk,

01:13 store bought from like Walmart.

01:15 As a calf, he needs to be getting higher protein milk.

01:18 If it's not naturally from his mom's milk,

01:21 who he didn't have access to for the month of his life.

01:23 So we have to kind of wean him off of the store bought milk.

01:27 I'm doing a scoop of this calf milk replacer.

01:31 And then this is actual cow's milk

01:33 that a sweet girl, Bae, gave me.

01:35 Ideal for him.

01:36 As well as some whole milk.

01:38 He was only getting 12 cups a day of milk.

01:40 And by this point he should be getting at least 16.

01:43 We're slowly working up to 16.

01:45 It can do more harm than good to overfeed

01:47 after he's been fed that little.

01:49 He got five cups this morning

01:51 and he's gonna get another five cups now.

01:53 Tonight he'll be getting four cups of milk.

01:56 I'm gonna give Merlin some peanut butter

01:58 and put him in the pet room.

01:59 I'm gonna calf replacers mixed with water.

02:05 One cup of this and one cup of this.

02:08 Less and less whole milk and more of the other good stuff.

02:12 Let's give Merlin his toy.

02:13 Okay, we gotta wipe your nose.

02:15 You don't like the towel, but we have to do it

02:17 'cause you have dirt all over.

02:18 Peanut butter, peanut butter.

02:20 Good job, Merlin.

02:23 That's more like five and a half, six cups,

02:25 but it's okay.

02:26 He's got just a little under five cups this morning,

02:28 so it evens out.

02:29 Check the temp.

02:31 Perfect.

02:31 Warm, but not too warm.

02:32 He needs to be a little hungry

02:34 after he drinks all the milk

02:35 because that encourages him to eat his calf starter.

02:39 Let's go get Moo.

02:40 Hi, Moo.

02:42 Oh yeah, look at the stuffed animals we got for him.

02:44 If you guys are new here

02:46 or haven't watched the video that I posted yesterday,

02:48 we know that Moo is going to be a bull.

02:51 Our main concern was to get him out of that environment

02:53 where he was being malnourished and mistreated.

02:55 We are rehabilitating him.

02:56 We love him, so we want him to be ours,

02:58 but we realized that this space

03:00 is not gonna be suitable for him

03:02 when he is a full grown calf.

03:04 Our intention is to get him somewhere

03:06 once he's off of milk,

03:08 which is what the vet recommended,

03:09 get him somewhere where he can be with other cattle,

03:13 other bulls.

03:13 We'll be getting him castrated

03:15 so his aggression is at a minimum,

03:17 but we're still gonna be paying for him,

03:19 visiting him all the time,

03:20 and then once Alex and I buy land,

03:22 which we hope to be the case in the near future,

03:25 hopefully, fingers crossed,

03:27 he will come back with us

03:28 and we'll rescue a couple more cows.

03:30 He'll have his herd.

03:31 He definitely thinks Alex and I

03:32 are part of his herd at this point,

03:34 so we're hoping that even with bulls' natural tendencies

03:38 to get more aggressive, he'll still love us.

03:41 But he's so amazing with us.

03:43 He especially loves Alex.

03:44 It's incredible.

03:46 I'm the one who's feeding him during the day

03:48 'cause Alex goes to work, this is my job.

03:50 stay home and do this and take care of Merlin, Muffy and the rats.

03:57 Good job!

03:59 Yay!

04:01 Birthday to you, birthday dear Moo.

04:08 (Moo sounds)

04:10 (Moo sounds)

04:12 Yay Moo, come on!

04:14 Come on!

04:16 Come on Moo!

04:18 Yay!

04:20 Yay!

04:22 I'm in town, so am I.

04:24 I go and try.

04:26 I go and pile them chickens back in my style.

04:28 And try to copy my style.

04:30 I'm on that next.

04:32 That's so too fast.

04:34 That's so too fast.

04:36 I got that boom boom boom.

04:38 That future boom boom boom.

04:40 Let me get it now.

04:42 Let me get that boom boom boom.

04:44 Let me get that boom boom boom.

04:46 (Kissing sounds)

04:48 I love you mom.

04:50 And I love you.

04:52 Yay!

04:54 [MUSIC]

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