Guiness & Finlay are Irish Kerry cattle - a rare breed. Guiness would have gone to the abbatoir the following week if he hadn’t come to the sanctuary. Finlay’s future wasn’t looking too bright either!

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Whilst staying in rural Devon for the night, I woke to the sound of fierce bellowing. Fearing the local farmer (who had a reputation for neglect and unkindness to animals) was treating a cow badly, I marched down the farm track in my pyjamas to confront him! Actually what I found was a pleasant smallholder who was bemused by the bellowing of a young animal he had bred but whose castration had been problematic. He was left with an infertile bullock who still had the hormones, and therefore the behaviour, of a bull.