Humans are more important than animals…… to humans. Cows I expect would think their brethren are more important to them than humans.

But more importantly they’re animals who want to live. They have a preference to not die, just as all animals do. They pine for weeks when their children are taken from them. They have very strong maternal instincts.

There was a cow who was rescued from a dairy farm who was pregnant. She gave birth at the sanctuary, and she hid her baby (Valentine because he was born on Valentine’s Day). Every time the sanctuary workers would find Valentine, she’d move him. I can only imagine she was afraid that they would take him. The sanctuary is Arthur’s acres. I can’t remember the name of the mum. Might have been clarabelle?

Remind me again how animals are unthinking automatons?