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Omaha Steve

(109,908 posts) Thu Mar 12, 2015, 06:28 AM Mar 2015

Indiana farmer saves freezing baby cow with hot tub swim [View all]

http://apnews.excite.com/article/20150311/us-baby-cow-hot-tub-c16641153b.html

ROSSVILLE, Ind. (AP) — A central Indiana farmer jumped into a hot tub with a shivering baby cow to save the calf's life.

Carroll County farmer Dean Gangwer tells WRTV-TV ( http://bit.ly/1wcrUMk ) that he thinks one of his cows gave birth in the snow. He said he found the barely breathing newborn in a snowbank this week.

The third-generation farmer says he decided the quickest way to warm up the calf, named Leroy, would be to use his hot tub. Gangwer says he "jumped in fully dressed and held Leroy up so he didn't drown." Gangwer then took the calf inside and wrapped him in electric blankets.

FULL short story at link. Video: ( http://bit.ly/1wcrUMk )

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Indiana farmer saves freezing baby cow with hot tub swim [View all] Omaha Steve Mar 2015 OP

Poor Leroy--he almost became "freezer beef" before his time... MADem Mar 2015 #1

Yaaaay for Leroy narnian60 Mar 2015 #2

Super! Sherman A1 Mar 2015 #3

perhaps I'm too cynical, but what did he save the calf from? Victor_c3 Mar 2015 #4

I clearly need more coffee. Pacifist Patriot Mar 2015 #6

look at it this way maybe LeRoy will spend his days as a stud bull azurnoir Mar 2015 #7

Look on the bright side... nikto Mar 2015 #5

wish there were pics. BlancheSplanchnik Mar 2015 #8

There's a short video at the last link. sinkingfeeling Mar 2015 #10

I'll have to look BlancheSplanchnik Mar 2015 #11

Many years ago, we put a baby pig in a pre-heated oven (about 150 degrees), sinkingfeeling Mar 2015 #9

Awwwwwwwwwww! BlancheSplanchnik Mar 2015 #16

What a sweet story Worried senior Mar 2015 #18

If Leroy is a male calf, then he's a bull calf, a "baby bull," not a baby cow. nt tblue37 Mar 2015 #12

I saw that -- and why call it a baby anything? It's a calf. You can tell these writers have never Nay Mar 2015 #13

Yep. My point precisely. nt tblue37 Mar 2015 #15

Unfortunately for Leroy, Gangwer seems to be a beef farmer. Orsino Mar 2015 #14

Must of been a slow news day. UncleYoder Mar 2015 #17