Cow singing back to violin

[Tumbulu]

OK, here is the vision. It is early twilight and I am out feeding the sheep (I now have lots of them, more and more keep being given to me, the last six are the cutest cutest sheep in the world, tiny shetland sheep) and the old horse given to me (I have acres of pasture and many people here in N. Calif. cannot feed their farm animals anymore, but I grow hay and have pasture, so that is why so many animals now live here with us, plus I love them). Next to my farm there is a pasture with green grass growing and someone has put a bunch of cattle in it, maybe last week. They are eating the grass but notice that these little dinky sheep are being fed hay and this seems to piss them off. They are mooing at all of us and the sheep are ignoring them.

Suddenly, out of nowhere one cow makes a totally different vocalization. All the sheep, the horse and me as well turn and look at it. It does it again. I finish up, go into the house and there I find my daughter playing her violin with the window open toward the cows. She is playing the same note the cow was making. It turns out that she played the note, the cow mooo'd the note, she played the note again, the cow imitated it again in both length and pitch.

Now, isn't that something? Tonight the cows were not around when I fed the hay to these guys. She is now convinced that it is a magical cow and that at sunrise it will turn into a pig. I guess Charlotte's Web has made a big impact on her.

Anyway, I wanted to share this with you guys as it certainly was unusual.

[Systematic Chaos]

1. I can't believe nobody else responded to this even if the thread is in a sparser forum.

That's the coolest thing I've read in a while. It really put a smile on my face trying to imagine the scene in my head.

Also, it reminds me of how, when I sometimes sit here alone and start singing along with the music playing on my computer, one or more of our four cats will swarm me like I'm the Pied Piper. They just seem to love listening to me sing along with various songs. Not that I'm particularly good or anything, but I really think it's sweet and is a great way for me to bond with teh kittehs. :)

[Tumbulu]

2. That is so neat- I love your image of you with your kitties singing.

There is a story that I read in a Barbara Kingsolver novel about canaries teaching humans to talk by teaching them to sing first.

I think that music is some kind of door into a different way of communicating.

I also think that I should have posted this story in a music forum or something. Thanks for responding.