Calves who arrive at auction houses are generally just a few days old, weak, and rife with infections due to the lack of mom’s milk.
Susie Coston, national shelter director for Farm Sanctuary, had already bought two such babies one day, in late December 2010, and when a third so tiny and pathetic that people laughed calling it “trash†came up, the auctioneer simply looked at her and asked if she wanted it too.
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