‘Frozen’ newborn calf snuggles with kids on family couch to escape bone-chilling weather
A Kentucky family turned their living room into an unlikely barn this weekend after rescuing a newborn calf from dangerously cold temperatures — and the tiny cow wasted no time settling in on the couch beside the family’s sleeping children.
The calf was born Saturday on the Sorrell family farm in Mount Sterling as temperatures plunged into the single digits. Seeing the newborn struggling in the brutal cold, Macey Sorrell carried the shivering animal into her home to warm her up.
After being fed, cleaned, and dried off, the calf quickly made herself comfortable — curling up on the couch alongside Sorrell’s two young children as they napped.
“They crawled up next to her like it was the most normal thing in the world,” Sorrell said Thursday.
Her 3-year-old son even gave the calf a name: Sally, inspired by his favorite character from the movie Cars. Moved by the tender scene, Sorrell snapped photos and shared them on social media.
One image shows the calf fast asleep beside the toddler on one end of the couch, while Sorrell’s daughter naps on the other. Another photo captures the young boy snoozing face-down on the rug, his arm draped protectively around the calf.
The Sorrells, who have about three dozen cows, occasionally bring animals indoors when necessary. But after losing a calf to frostbite last winter, they didn’t hesitate when they saw Sally was in trouble.
“She was completely frozen,” Sorrell recalled. “Her umbilical cord looked like a popsicle.”
Ice clung to the calf’s body, and the afterbirth was still attached. Sorrell dried her off, used a blow dryer to warm her up, and fluffed her coat until she was stable.
By the next morning, Sally was reunited with her mother and is now doing well back on the farm — after briefly stealing hearts (and couch space) indoors.
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