Shaggy Cow

Isn’t this one of the coolest looking cows you have ever seen?  Well it’s one of the coolest looking cows I’ve ever seen, and I see a lot of cows where I live in Idaho.  I have a fondness for cows, having spent a lot of time visiting a dairy growing up and drinking whole milk.  You really don’t know what milk tastes like if you only drink the stuff they sell at the market.  That’s NOT real milk.  Anyway, I photograph cows all the time because I think they are sweet animals and normally when I stop the car to take a photograph, they might come up to the fence and lick my hand, or they may lay there and just look at me.  Sometimes they wander off or show me the tail end, but normally, they don’t freak out.  When I stopped to photograph this gorgeous creature, I put the window down and took a few photos.  The cow seemed fine with that, so I figured we had a happy cow that didn’t mind being photographed.  I decided I could get a better angle if I got out of the car, and so I came around to the side of the fence near its head, and suddenly this cow spun around, bolted away and then struck a pose. I don’t know which of us was more surprised.  The photos turned out even better with the posturing and I plan to go back and visit these cows again.  I love the shaggy hair and the long horns.