Beefing up Angus

By Kelly Yates
A BERWICK woman is busy bottle-feeding a calf she found near her home, with the hope of raising it as a family pet.
Pam Higgins came across Angus the calf while she was checking out the development works around her property recently.
Ms Higgins said the area was being redeveloped into the Berwick Waterways.
“I was walking through there to see what the excavators had been doing and I found Angus by himself,” she said.
“My neighbour, who owned Angus, said the calf’s mother and some other cows had run home because of the trucks.
“But Angus got left behind.”
Ms Higgins said Angus, who is the size of her Labrador dog, was shaking because of the cold weather when she rescued him.
“My neighbour came down and had a look and I begged and pleaded to keep him as a pet. And he agreed to it,” she said.
This is the first time Ms Higgins has raised a calf as a pet.
“I’m a softie,” she said. “I felt sorry for him. He’s a cute little thing.”
Ms Higgins, who runs Pam’s Ponies at her Berwick farm, has been bottle-feeding Angus three times a day on the verandah of her Centre Road home.
“And my two dogs just keep mothering him,” she said.