Luna the Galloping Cow

For my first current events post I decided to do something about biology so I went on to DOGO news and I searched up animals. And one of the things that came up was Luna the Galloping Cow.
We are so programmed to think that animals can do only what we believe they are capable of. So whenever a animal does something out of the ordinary we are surprised and stunned. For example who would believe that a pig can be trained like a dog, or like this a cow can gallop almost as well as a horse. Luna is a two year old bovine who lives Germany. Regina Mayer is the owner of Luna. She first started of slowly by taking the young calf on long walks across the countryside. Once Luna was comfortable with it she began taking her through more populated areas, so Luna could get use to more humans around he, and also fitted her with riding equipment. About six months into this, Regina decided to mount Luna and see how the cow would react. After a few minutes she could see that Luna was starting to show signs of being nervous and excitement. Turns out that the sweet loving cow had a very stubborn side to her, making training a little harder at times. To get through the issues, Regina called Anne Wiltafsky, a cow trainer in Zurich, Switzerland for some tips. Even though Regina still hopes to have a horse she loves riding Luna very much. She says no matter what she and Luna will always stay the best of friends!



First why I chose to write about this event is because first I wanted it to do something with biology because we are learning it at the moment. So as I said before I went onto DOGO news and I searched animals. There were some interesting things but nothing really made me feel interested and amazed. But then I saw the an article that was just very interesting and I just never thought that type of animal could do. that. So I learned many things from this article and the first thing was that animals cannot just do what we think they can do. Like I said before pigs can be trained like a dog and that though never even crossed my mind! I also learned that really animals do have many things in common. I agree that animals can do more things then we expect them to because its true! Pigs can be like dogs, Birds can make sounds like humans, and cows can gallop and jump like horses!
Bibliography

"Luna The Galloping . . . . . Cow? - Kids News Article." DOGO News - Kids News Articles! Kids Current Events; plus Kids News on Science, Sports, and More! Web. 18 Sept. 2011. .