Username: BadgerBuddies
Name: Maple
Gender: Heifer
Collar Color: something along the lines of the right side of
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Calf Number: One
Prompt: It’s known to get exceedingly hot down south, and springtime tends to feel like summer. Unfortunately, cattle are not immune to the effects of the rising temperatures. While the farmers try their best to keep their heifers cool and comfortable, their boredom is in no way combatted. Most of the cows either lie in the shade to ruminate the day away, and some sit under fans or sprinklers, which worked fine to beat the heat. But two sisters wanted more adventure before spring turned to summer and the heat truly became too much to bear.
Maple was the shyer of the siblings. If her sister had an idea, she generally tended to follow along like a little sheep, not always thinking through the potential consequences of their actions. This summer day was no different. Maple’s sister had been closely watching the humans for weeks now, ever since the summer solstice had passed. She watched them work tirelessly all day to maintain the farm and the herds, dripping in sweat. Her keen eye had noticed that once, sometimes several times a day, if it were unusually hot, the humans would open up this mysterious, cold box and pull out some frozen treats that smelled incredibly sweet and tasty! Ever since noticing, she began to study their behavior patterns, trying to figure out the optimal time to pull of the ultimate heist.
“Alright, the humans tend to clear out around the middle of the afternoon for about 45 minutes, and then they all return. I’m not sure where they all go, but that’s our best chance at getting to whatever is in that cold box!” Maple’s sister explained to her early one morning. Maple carefully listened to her sister’s observations and instructions for how to carry out the plan, simply nodding, not thinking much about it. The two agreed that later that day, they would put their plan into action.
Maple, being the larger of the two sisters, used all her weight to break down one of the posts containing the sisters and several other cows in their pen. The duo was able to hop out of their pen and trot on over to the mysterious box. Maple held onto the handle with her mouth and yanked open the door, revealing a treasure trove of goodies. The sisters helped each other open the frozen treats, and happily chowed down on a varied assortment of ice pops.
The sisters lost track of time while they were gorging themselves, and spooked as they heard a door slam and a worker holler “HEY!”. They darted away and hopped over the fence Maple had knocked down back into their pen, but the evidence was all over their faces, the different colored ice pops staining the white patches around their mouths. Although they knew they had caused quite a bit of trouble, and that the humans were quite furious, the two sisters couldn’t help but giggle. The trouble was definitely worth the adventure.
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