Bovine Intelligence
Aug 3rd, 2008 by Tana
Cows aren’t dumb – they know where to go when it gets hot.
Today Steve set up the swimming pool for Ben in the back yard.
At first, he just threw his toys in. Balls. Buckets. Bats. When Steve saw him getting ready to put his tricycle in, he brought a halt to the game. [The other toys remained.]
Then Ben got in. And stood in the water. Had a great time playing with his toys. Would not sit down.
Finally Steve convinced him to sit down in the water to get cool.
Such fun!
Did you know you can dump water out of the pool with your bucket and not get in trouble for it (unlike the sandbox)? Steve says the water level went down at least six inches.
Now Ben, too, knows where to go when it gets hot.
Can you believe how red that water is [that the cows are standing in]?
Nicky wouldn’t swim until this year. He wouldn’t even sit down in the little pool. Now he’s all about the water, though!
It’s nice that the cows have a pond to go in since they have little shade. But, around here, the wisdom is to fence them out of the water supply so that they’re not soiling the water that they drink 🙂