Pets

Late one summer after a storm, we threw some fallen green apples over the fence to our cows, who munched them down contentedly--until one of them started wheezing and coughing and starting to turn blue around her lips. Got a piece of apple stuck in her throat. I climbed through the fence, got on the ground under her, found her breastbone, and started thrusting my hands into her diaphragm area--the old Heimlich maneuver. After ten or so thrusts, I heard her cough up something and then spit something out and stop. So I guess I dislodged it.

Never thought I would do the Heimlich maneuver on a cow. I would've been in deep trouble if I hadn't gotten it out and she collapsed on me. No way i could've gotten out from under her if she had....but somehow, I didn't think about that at the time.....