When I was doing research for my book, “Through the eyes of a cow”, I visited a dairy farm in Bidart, France and met an amazing cow who I call “Number 53”.  She was very special and shared an amazing amount of information with me about the social structure of cows, how she felt living at the dairy farm, about her friends, and mostly about the illness she has.  I understood her to have some sort of cancer of the blood and bones.  As I do with many animals, I would sit and draw her, and spontaneously I would receive a lot of information from her body, like information from her cellular structure; which I found quite difficult to understand without having a detailed knowledge of anatomy and physiology.

What I felt was important was that she demonstrated how much knowledge she had of what was going on in her body, and was in fact describing to me the bodies natural ability to know what is out of balance and how to heal.  It was clear to me that if she was in an environment where she could walk long distances each day and have access to an array of fresh plants and herbs she would be more than likely, be able to self-heal herself.  Even with her illness, she managed to perform her abilities at the dairy, she continued to provide milk for humans and she performed her role as head cow in the herd with ease.  I watched her sort out an in-difference between two younger cows; it was clear who was boss.  She was limping as she did it, but they certainly listened to her and stopped.

Read more about her in “Through the eyes of a cow”, available as an eBook or hard copy.  (Printed on 100% recycled paper, with vegetable based inks, all monies go towards Our Place on Earth projects for animals).

Lots love, Jodi