Indiana farmer saves freezing baby cow with hot tub swim

[Omaha Steve]

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 )

[MADem]

1. Poor Leroy--he almost became "freezer beef" before his time...

Freezer veal, more like...

[narnian60]

2. Yaaaay for Leroy

and his farmer dad. May Leroy live a long, full life after surviving this.

[Sherman A1]

3. Super!

I hope the calf continues to improve.

[Victor_c3]

4. perhaps I'm too cynical, but what did he save the calf from?

So the cow gets to grow up and get slaughtered for meat when it is sufficiently big enough? Woohoo!

Anyways, I'm done trying to earn the "DU piece of crap award" for the day. I'll be cynical somewhere else now.

[Pacifist Patriot]

6. I clearly need more coffee.

I was thinking that if the farmer named the cow than it's probably dairy rather than meat...and then I read the calf's name again. I'm not thinking Leroy's got milk production in his future either. Guess we can hope he's been saved to produce more calves.

[azurnoir]

7. look at it this way maybe LeRoy will spend his days as a stud bull

I mean it's better than winding up a T-Bone or Porter House or NY Strip or



I'll stop now

[nikto]

5. Look on the bright side...

Maybe in a year or 2, you'll have a lovely night out with the significant Other, finishing up at the steak house,
and you have a wonderful
prime rib or rib steak, part of a wonderful dinner and evening.

That was Leroy.


And perhaps,
somewhere, someday, in space or time, out there in infinity,
maybe you'll have a chance to give something back to him.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

8. wish there were pics.

[sinkingfeeling]

10. There's a short video at the last link.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

11. I'll have to look

[sinkingfeeling]

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

wrapped in a blanket, with no skin touching anything, to warm it and save it. It worked and that piggy became a family pet, called Poochie.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

16. Awwwwwwwwwww!

❤

[Worried senior]

18. What a sweet story

so glad Poochie had a great life.

[tblue37]

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

[Nay]

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

set foot on a farm.

[tblue37]

15. Yep. My point precisely. nt

[Orsino]

14. Unfortunately for Leroy, Gangwer seems to be a beef farmer.

So yay for now?

[UncleYoder]

17. Must of been a slow news day.

There was absolutely no reason for this clown to jump in with the calf.
Being a 3rd generation, he would have had a couple of calf slings handy.
Plus, wet and cold kill more baby animals than anything else.
Just needed to towel it off and get it under a heat lamp.
But then this wouldn't make a cool story, Bro.