Tuesday 30 July 2019

Feeling Stressed?

cuddle a cow!



cow cuddling has been around in Europe for a while, but now a farm in upstate New York is giving Americans the chance to unwind by getting up close and personal with peaceful bovines for just $75 an hour, Mountain House Farm, a beautiful 33-acre retreat in New York, has been offering wellness sessions with horses to guests for the past nine years, but recently added cow cuddling on the menu as well, Suzanne Vullers, a Netherlands native who runs the farm with her husband, brought two cows back with her from a visit to her home country, after learning about the hearing about the health benefits of cuddling with cows, “To be honest, we did not know that it was so unknown in the US,” Vullers told CNN. “A lot of people are familiar with therapy dogs or cats … people don’t associate this with larger animals, like cows.” photograph Mountain House Farm/Facebook, the farm offers just one or two cow cuddling sessions per day, which they usually limit to around two people. The experience is currently priced at $75 per hour, but allegedly helps people “stay healthy, mentally and physically”. The owners emphasize that their farm is not a petting zoo and that visitors wanting to take part in the Horse & Cow experience have to consider both themselves and the animals. So every cuddling session is scheduled ahead of time in a way that does not interfere with the cows’ natural rhythm, “We’re not a petting zoo. It’s not all about you. It’s about us and them,” Vullers said. “For us, it’s very important that the animals have choices and it’s as much their choice to connect with humans as it is for us.” what a neat idea, now if I were a farmer and had a herd of say 50 cows and had two sessions a day with each cow, that's 50  X  2  X  $75 = crikey that's $7,500 a day! give the cows one day off a week to make milk, so 6 days  X $7,500 a day = $45.000 a week! now where can I buy a herd of 50 cows?


2 comments:

Jil Wrinkle said...

I'd have no ability to relax or unwind with one of those cows, because all I would be able to focus on was how much the experience was costing me.

PattayaStan said...

DearJil, it worked! now you are unwinding just thinking about the $75 you have saved! best regards, Stan and Diana.