We"re all for interspecies friendship, but this one seems more of a case of mistaken identity.
Moonshine, an old-ish mare who resides on a farm in the south-west of Queensland, Australia, was found tending to a random orphaned calf — barely a week old — by cattle grazier Gerda Glasson.
"I"m thinking the calf must"ve got lost and I was looking around for the mother cow, but [the] calf got up and started walking over to Moonshine," Glasson told .
"Moonshine put her nose down as if to say, "this is mine," and the calf started trying to drink."
Moonshine has never raised a foal, although she did birth one a decade ago, which died. Maybe she needs a fresh opportunity in the calf. But because she doesn"t produce any milk, her human owners have stepped in to feed the horse-loving baby cow.
They won"t be inseparable forever, though. Moonshine is a polocrosse horse for Glasson"s child.
"I can"t see myself dragging a calf around to the polocrosse carnivals — it"ll be a bit of a sight," Glasson told the news outlet.
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