On the Edge of Common Sense

A good cowboy will go beyond the call of duty and even put himself in harm’s way to help a suffering beast.

Doug and Patty run a ranch in that big, wide country in eastern New Mexico. They’d received several loads of cow/calf pairs. The weather was against ’em and the calves went to scourin’.

The cows were turned out in a big pasture. Treating the calves wasn’t easy. The morning of the incident, t...