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Meet Harveigh, the calf who lived in the laundry and is more like a dog than a cow

She was adopted by a family in Texas in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, but doesn’t act like any cow they’ve ever met.

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Harveigh used to live in the family home (Harveigh’s Story/PA)

Harveigh is a seven-month-old rescue cow, taken in by a family in Fulshear, Texas, following Hurricane Harvey.

And Harveigh isn’t like other cows. When the Cantons (47-year-old Ren, his wife Tammy, 43, and their 20-year-old son Tyler) first took her in, she lived in their laundry, played with their dogs, and drank milk from a bottle.

“[She] could not stand on her own,” Tammy told the Press Association.

“We knew she needed help very quickly.”

Th calf gets wedged in a door frame
Harveigh struggling to navigate round the family’s laundry, where she lived for a period (Harveigh’s Story)

“She does get to come inside to visit her dog friends and to have her hair brushed,” Tammy said but: “If it was up to Harveigh, she would live inside forever.”

“She adores dogs but she is terrified of other cows,” said Tammy.

“She will cry, scream, run and kick if she is put near other cows. We are working on that by taking her to the barn to spend time around them.”

But the plan is to have her move in with the rest of their livestock eventually.

But the family keep her occupied with “new friends”, like this yoga ball.

“Harveigh LOVES kids,” Tammy said, “she makes people extremely happy.”

Tammy admits that Harveigh has so far been “pampered” compared to the rest of their cows.

“Our other cows are very well taken care of, but they live in the pasture and in the barn like normal cows,” she said.

“Harveigh is more like an over-sized dog.”

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