00:00He has zoomies. He's rolling around. He's, you know, kicking his legs. He's happy. A lot of
00:05people view them as products or commodities. Farmed animals are just as capable of experiencing
00:11the emotions that we see reflected in our dogs, cats. Theo's original start to life was at a
00:17feed store. He was kept with another female calf at the time, but due to negligence of those caring
00:25for them at the store, the female actually passed away from starvation. A man did purchase Theo and
00:31did get him back into physical health. However, from some of the photos that I have seen, the man
00:38kind of took the opportunity to use Theo as a prop for photos, kind of a novelty of being able
00:44to ride
00:45a cow. When conflict started happening between Theo and the other bulls at the property, it was
00:51becoming unsafe for Theo. And rather than investing in ways to prevent those conflicts from happening,
01:00the farmer was either just going to slaughter Theo or just give him away to whoever would take him.
01:04That's when his most recent caretaker took him in. And the entire two years that Theo was at her
01:10property, his main friends were miniature horses and donkeys. Horses and people are never going to
01:16replace the same bond that he would be able to share with others of the same species as him.
01:22She reached out to us and she loved Theo so much, but she knew that a part of responsibly caring
01:31for
01:31him would be getting him to a place where he would have the companionship of other bovines and cows.
01:44Once it came time to actually introducing Theo, we opened up his quarantine pen. It probably took like
01:5120 minutes for him to actually make it like less than 50 feet from the quarantine pen to the herd
01:57because he was so excited just to like chew on the grass the entire way down there. Once he turned
02:03the
02:03corner and saw that it was like a wide open lane for him to go into the larger space.
02:13Awesome, good. Straight to the hay. That's when he does his cute kind of little bunny hop
02:18and then like took off and was kicking and bucking everywhere.
02:33What do you think, baby? You good?
02:37You're welcome, sweet boy. You're welcome.
02:42It's your new home, baby.
02:48Once it came time to actually introducing Theo, we opened up his quarantine pen.
03:03Our cheeks hurt from smiling, watching him just like doing his laps. It was kind of like sending
03:08your kid off to like preschool for the first day where they like are out and playing and then they
03:13come back to check in on you to make sure everything's still okay. And we're like, yeah,
03:17dude, like this is yours. Like, go. Like, go have fun.
03:23His only job now is to just exist and be happy and that's what makes us happy.
03:28Are you happy?