Moosday: um—Fox Terrier or bebe cow?

by Meg on May 29, 2007

OK, this is way too confusing, it’s MOOSDAY for CRYING OUT LOUD and so far we haven’t had a single real cow on the site. This is really embarrassing.

Lookslikeacow

Merrrhe.

Linda P., could you flip him over and see if he makes a ‘moo’ sound? Then we’d know fer sure.

{ 39 comments }

1 Deckard Canine 05.29.07 at 3:44 pm

Should make an interesting howl.

2 Rumi 05.29.07 at 3:46 pm

Ah, the ever-elusive “Moo-puppy”! That is just adorable….she looks like the cow on the Ben & Jerry’s pints, lol!

How old is that wee puppeh, anyway? And what kind is it?

3 buggiedoo 05.29.07 at 3:50 pm

Yeah, where are all the cows?!
I love cows (big and small) Need more pictures of barnyard critters. Love the hams, woofs and Kitties. Kiss anything with fur (and some without) Sigh. Need more critters in my home.

4 kk3 05.29.07 at 3:51 pm

I am never Bleen….

5 Holly 05.29.07 at 3:57 pm

Awww! I want to rub my cheek on that silky baby.

6 mariser 05.29.07 at 4:08 pm

…paging amyh, paging amyh, paging amyh, paging amyh…

7 tulasi-priya 05.29.07 at 4:26 pm

You want cows? How ’bout calves? Pulling a red Radio Flyer wagon full of hay?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tulasi-priya/133217702/in/set-72157594312693626/

These babies are big boys now, but as sweet as ever. They will never be killed.

8 metsakins 05.29.07 at 4:35 pm

Must leave work and find puppeh to snorgle now!!!

9 luvinmalssomuch 05.29.07 at 4:37 pm

Cows don’t come that small….do they?

10 Robbie 05.29.07 at 4:41 pm

Those ears…they’re knockin’ me over and killin’ me! I’m “udderly” in love!

Rat terrior puppeh? Or miniature Holstein baby?

11 Suzanne 05.29.07 at 4:41 pm

WANT
ONE
NOW

I’ll even build him his own barn-shaped dog/cow house.

12 dwine 05.29.07 at 4:45 pm

I honestly thought that was a babycow. It took literally minutes before I realised that cows generally dont fit in a human hand.

13 AmyH 05.29.07 at 4:50 pm

AAAHHH! *sploit*
(Sung to the tune of “Food” from Oliver)Cowz, glorious cowz, so bovinely delightful!

This li’l guy is super cute!

And I’ll see tulasi’s pair of baby boy Jerseys and raise him twin Jersey girls.
http://singlegirlwithcat.vox.com/library/photo/6a00c225257507604a00d10a79ce2a8bfa.html

Yay, COWZ!11!!

14 Scruffylove 05.29.07 at 4:52 pm

It’s the nose that it makes it the most confusing. Maybe I just haven’t seen a real live little pup in awhile. So, so sad.

15 SayYesh 05.29.07 at 4:53 pm

Meg, you’re cracking me up with all these moo-faces !

16 Christina 05.29.07 at 4:57 pm

Aww, this is both adorable and hilarious.

17 gannet 05.29.07 at 5:12 pm

A dogcow. Hurray!

Moof!

[ah yes, another old-school Macintosh fan... - Ed.]

18 ThreeCatNight 05.29.07 at 5:19 pm

Ah, the elusive mini calfpup, only seen on rare occasions. And one I would love to kees on its little sweet silky head and nosicle.

19 Mary 05.29.07 at 5:43 pm

now I’m a bit confused, the comment with the photo says “haven’t had a single real cow” and yet the previous post was a real cow… wasn’t it? Or are my eyes deceiving me and it was really a .. gorilla? or something?

[there was another "blog post timewarp" and the real calf appeared out-of-sequence... - Ed.]

20 AuntieMame 05.29.07 at 6:05 pm

Mary, technically “cow” refers only to the female of the species. So, no, the previous photo, while “bovine,” is actually a bull rather than a cow.

Although your average person-on-the-street would call that hair-splitting.

21 Mary 05.29.07 at 6:21 pm

Well my goodness, I’m standing corrected all over the place. I didn’t actually look that closely at the baby bull, and now that I am, I don’t see how you can tell from the photo but I’ll take your word for it.. no graphic explanations needed.

I suppose the bottom line on this topic is, they’re all cute!!! and no other categorization’s really needed. So I’ll hush up now.

22 Pheas 05.29.07 at 6:34 pm

If we had a black-and-white cow-kitty, would it be Mews-day?

23 AmyH 05.29.07 at 6:37 pm

I use ‘cows’ generically, as do most people. That’s partly because the majority of bovines you see running around are the females. Sorry, boys, not much use for you (at least in the dairy world I live in).

When I was flying back from Southeast Asia a few months ago, I was going through all the movies offered as I can’t sleep on a plane, no matter how many hours I’ve been awake. I watched not more than five minutes of “Barnyard” before I turned it off in disgust. All the cows were actually male characters. Did not one person involved in the movie realize that:
Mammal females give milk
Cows give milk
Therefore, cows are females.

Un-frickin-believable.

24 AmyH 05.29.07 at 6:40 pm

Mary – when you look at the bull’s belly, you’ll see a tuft of hair and dangly skin about rear-center. That’s where his pee-pee comes out. The testes are between the legs and out of view in this shot. (And yes, pee-pee is a technical term).

25 grau 05.29.07 at 6:41 pm

Real life Clarus? Moof!

26 CowgirlMeg 05.29.07 at 6:47 pm

And to get even MORE technical, females don’t becoem cows until they have had a calf, before that they are heifers.

27 liz 05.29.07 at 6:52 pm

well that is the cutest lil heifer i’ve ever seen!
I’m wondering out “loud- what kind of pup is that?” and “how old is he/she?” and “where’s the rest of the litter” and “where are the pics of said litter?”
more please!

28 Tor 05.29.07 at 9:13 pm

Hm. Cows? Memorial Day? Though I’m late to the party, I can’t do without a mention of this (flash):

http://www.shagrat.net/Portfolio/cows.swf

29 acelightning 05.29.07 at 10:36 pm

*VERY* good job of Photoshopping there… the only place it really shows is around the cow’s mouth. Nice concept, though.

30 Pheas 05.29.07 at 10:36 pm

Tor, love it! Promptly sent to my Schmoop who teaches animal law.

31 Shannon Johnson 05.29.07 at 10:40 pm

Like my puppy Toby, this is a little cow puppy.

32 SlaveToThreeFelines 05.29.07 at 11:31 pm

Oh dear lord, that’s cute

33 pjk 05.29.07 at 11:41 pm

I am giggling at my self. Having known many calfies in my day, I looked at the picture and was thinking, ya know, just mebbee…gee, could be… and then I read dwines comment! Duh! Think I need to turn in my farmgirl credentials! (slinks away, blushing)

34 Yitzysmommie 05.30.07 at 3:47 am

OK, I count Rules of Cuteness # 2, 13, 14, 15 and 21 goin’ on at the very least. What’s a five-fecta?

35 Yitzysmommie 05.30.07 at 3:50 am

Also #16 – the “fivehead” and #17. This could be an all time record – no wait, how many did “I shall leek yur hiney” get??

36 Subhangi 05.30.07 at 5:10 am

Eh?

*turns head this way and that*

Whatever.

*snorgles*

37 Stogie 05.30.07 at 9:44 pm

That looks just like our Smooth Fox Terrier, Brewster. He’s 12 years old now though. He looked just like this little dewd when he was a new pup though.
The kids in the neighborhood call Brewster “The Cow Dog;” his markings make him look like a Holstein!

38 rubber duck 05.31.07 at 4:57 am

I can just see that tiny little muzzle open to a tiny little “moo-ooo” sound!

39 kaly 07.23.07 at 8:36 pm

i can look at it all day and not get tired.. its the cutest thing i have ever seen!!!

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