'CUDDLING COWS changed my life'

LAWRENCE AND HIS FOURLEGGED FRIENDS BRING COMFORT TO THOSE IN NEED

- Emma Levett

Sally, Sophia and Holly are three of Lawrence Fox’s best friends, and they have changed his life in a very unexpected way. He calls them ‘doctors’ and ‘therapists’ and the girls are now working their magic on the paying public. Which seems odd given the ‘girls’ are actually cows!

“I first met the cows about six years ago at my mate’s farm,” Lawrence, who lives in Cairns, tells New Idea. “I’d sit and have a beer with them and then I had this game-changing moment one evening when I lay next to this one cow, Milkshake, and felt a huge connection.”

Cuddling up to a 500kg cow could be terrifying to some, but Lawrence insists the experience was serene.

“It was calming and relaxing,” shares Lawrence, who moved to the farm at the start of the COVID lockdowns in 2020.