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🐄Saving dairy cows & unwanted dairy calves
🌈Rehoming into loving homes as pets
💚Registered charity
📌Tasmania and New South Wales

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On Sunday, we welcomed 8 beautiful cows into our care at our already overflowing sanctuary in Tasmania.These 8 have spen...
14/10/2026

On Sunday, we welcomed 8 beautiful cows into our care at our already overflowing sanctuary in Tasmania.

These 8 have spent their lives as loved and cherished pets. But when their owner’s circumstances changed, they were faced with the heartbreaking task of finding them safe homes.

And that’s not as simple as people might think.
Adult cows, particularly beef breeds, have significant commercial value, which sadly attracts people with entirely the wrong intentions.

We’ve seen just how dishonest people can be. People promise loving homes, say all the right things, only for animals who have spent their lives trusting humans to end up in the wrong hands, sold for slaughter.

Imagine raising an animal as a beloved pet, only to discover they’ve ended up on someone’s dinner plate.
It’s heartbreaking. And it’s exactly why our Assisted Rehoming Program exists.

We believe it’s the only program of its kind in Australia, helping people across Tasmania and NSW find safe, lifelong homes for their cows. We carefully screen adopters and have strict legal agreements designed to protect these animals.

In this case, the situation had become urgent. Their owner was running out of options, so we brought all 8 into our care.

But rescuing them is only the beginning.

2 cows may be pregnant, with concerns about birthing complications due to the size of the bull. We have bulls requiring surgical castration, as we will not rehome entire bulls or cows with unresolved pregnancies. We won’t contribute to unnecessary breeding or pass these risks on to adopters.

We now face enormous veterinary bills, feed costs and the challenge of preparing eight large animals for safe adoption.

And all of this comes on top of the animals we already care for.

It’s not just about saving animals from slaughter. It’s about making sure they never end up there in the first place.

As a small, volunteer-run charity, emergencies like this stretch us beyond our limits. Monthly donations give us the security to say YES when animals urgently need help.

8 more lives are now depending on us.

Please help us continue this work.

Donate at https://www.companioncows.org/donate or via the link in our bio.

13/10/2026

Tommy and Muffins were waiting for the slaughter truck when our rescue team arrived.

They were confused, frightened and had only recently been taken from their mothers.

To the farmer, their lives held little value. Their births were simply a necessary inconvenience of dairy production. They were born because their mothers needed to produce milk, but as unwanted male calves, there was no place for them in the industry.

Tommy and Muffins are just 2 of more than 1 million newborn dairy calves cast aside for slaughter across Australia and New Zealand every year.

And perhaps what is most disturbing is that this isn’t some hidden, illegal act of cruelty.

It’s an accepted, entirely legal part of dairy production.

Think about that for a moment.

Tiny babies. Innocent, vulnerable, frightened. Their lives have barely begun, yet their deaths have already been decided.

And somehow, as a society, we have normalised this.

We have accepted that bringing sentient beings into the world, separating them from their mothers and killing them days later for a product (dairy) that we dont even need to consume.

We will never accept this.

And we will never stop fighting against it. No matter how long it takes.

We know we can’t save them all. We know it’s possible we’ll never see an end to this industry in our lifetime.

But that will never stop us from trying.

Right now, it’s calf slaughter season across Australia and New Zealand, and we urgently need your help to keep visiting farms and rescuing newborn calves before the slaughter trucks arrive.

Every rescue costs money. Every life saved is another life that would otherwise have been lost.

If you believe in what we’re fighting for, please stand with us.

❤️ Follow our work, share this post, leave a comment or, if you can, make a donation to help us save more lives.

www.companioncows.org or follow the link in our bio.

We can’t save them all. But together, we can save more. 🐄❤️

This is not where a newborn calf should be. His instinct is telling him to find his mother and drink. Instead, he is on ...
06/10/2026

This is not where a newborn calf should be.

His instinct is telling him to find his mother and drink. Instead, he is on a slaughter truck, and the only hands offering him something to drink belong to an activist standing beside the truck, taking him to slaughter.

At just days old, he should still be drinking from his mother. Naturally, young calves can suckle around 8–12 times a day, consuming approximately 8–13 litres of milk over 24 hours.

But suckling isn’t only about milk.

His mother also provides physical contact, familiarity, comfort, and safety.

Instead, during calf slaughter season, unwanted newborn dairy calves can enter Australia’s transport and slaughter system from just 5 days old.

Australian standards allow calves aged 5–30 days to travel without their mothers for up to 12 hours in transport and up to 18 hours without access to water.

Separate time-off-feed rules allow a maximum of 30 hours before they must be fed or slaughtered.

Think about that.

A baby whose body is telling him to return to his mother repeatedly throughout the day can instead spend hours travelling to a slaughterhouse without access to milk or water.

The dairy industry calls them “bobby calves.”
But he doesn’t know what a bobby calf is.

He doesn’t know that because he was born male; the system he was born into has little use for him.

He knows what his body is telling him.

To drink, seek comfort and survive.

There is nothing abnormal about his needs. What is abnormal is what we have decided he should endure.

These are legal limits — not a measure of what a calf naturally needs. Even Dairy Australia describes livestock transport standards as the “bare minimum of animal care expected.”

While standards exist, as a rescue organisation, we have witnessed what appear to be welfare breaches time and time again.

When nobody is watching, how often are even these bare-minimum standards met?

Spring is calf slaughter season.

Most Australians will never see this side of dairy production.

Thank you to the brave activist. Without you, so much remains hidden.

Please support our work by sharing this post or
DONATE via 🔗 in bio or
https://www.companioncows.org/donate

📷 Animal Save

URGENT UPDATE ON OUR BEAUTIFUL 9 🐄We wanted to update you on the 9 cows in Northern NSW whose owner has desperately reac...
02/10/2026

URGENT UPDATE ON OUR BEAUTIFUL 9 🐄

We wanted to update you on the 9 cows in Northern NSW whose owner has desperately reached out to us for help with their safe rehoming.

This is a high-risk, high-logistics rehoming, and we seriously need your help right now.

Through our Assisted Rehoming Program, we are supporting their owner with transport and hay while we find the right home. She is facing significant hardship and desperately needs our support to keep these animals fed and safe. With hay and transport costs continuing to rise, every extra day adds to the cost of getting these nine to safety.

That’s why our Assisted Rehoming Program matters.

It helps ensure animals rescued from slaughter or kept as beloved pets remain safe — and don’t end up in the wrong hands when their owners can no longer care for them. Grown cows hold a high commercial value, particularly female cows, which makes this rehoming even more high risk. There are disgusting people within our community who are prepared to lie and adopt pet cows to later slaughter them for meat.

Right now, you can help in TWO ways.

🐄 OFFER A SAFE HOME
If you’re in Northern NSW or surrounding areas and can provide a permanent PET-ONLY home for some or all of this herd, please get in touch with us urgently via our socials or [email protected].

We’re incredibly grateful for the interest we’ve received, but we will not compromise their safety to place them faster. If we don’t believe a home is suitable and safe, we won’t consider it. We owe that to these animals and to the person who has trusted us to protect them.

Suitable adopters need enough land, a cattle yard and ramp facilities (or access to), electric fencing, water security, and, most importantly, a commitment to keeping them safe and protected.

💛 DONATE
We urgently need support for hay and transport. Even a small donation helps us keep these cows fed while we work through the enormous logistics of getting them safely rehomed.

DONATE HERE - https://www.companioncows.org/donate

And to everyone who has already donated, shared, or reached out to help — thank you. ❤️

“Excuse me. I believe you’ve forgotten something.”— Pickles, five minutes after his scheduled feed time. 🐮🤦🏽‍♀️😂
27/09/2026

“Excuse me. I believe you’ve forgotten something.”

— Pickles, five minutes after his scheduled feed time. 🐮🤦🏽‍♀️😂

One of the greatest fears we carry as an animal rescue organisation is that an animal we have fought to save and protect...
25/09/2026

One of the greatest fears we carry as an animal rescue organisation is that an animal we have fought to save and protect could end up in the hands of someone who intends to harm them.

This week, that fear returned when a kind-hearted member of the Tasmanian public contacted us anonymously. They warned us that people may be planning to approach Companion Cows pretending to want to adopt rescued cows as pets, while secretly intending to kill them for cheap meat.

We understand that we live in a world where many people do not believe cows deserve the same rights, compassion, or consideration as other animals. But regardless of your beliefs, deliberately deceiving and exploiting a registered charity is morally indefensible.

We are a small organisation with limited resources. Our team gives so much of themselves to rescue, rehabilitate and protect these animals. Our supporters donate their hard-earned money to fund veterinary treatment, feed and transport.

The thought that someone could manipulate our team, exploit our work and gain access to an animal we have fought so hard to protect—an animal who may have survived cruelty, escaped slaughter or already found safety as a companion—is terrifying.

The people we have been warned about have now been blocked from our organisation. Our adoption process is already extremely strict, but we are taking further steps to strengthen it and have tightened our legally binding adoption agreements.

If you have cows that have been kept as pets and need to find them a safe new home, please don’t try to navigate the process alone. This is exactly why our Companion Cows Assisted Rehoming Program exists. It is available to anyone—not only people who originally adopted through us. We carefully screen and vet potential homes, put formal protections in place and assist with safe transport.

To the person who came forward: thank you. We are incredibly grateful that you chose to speak up.

Finally, to anyone considering contacting us under false pretences: don’t waste your time.

YOU WILL NOT FOOL US.

And you will never get close to our animals.

They have already survived enough.

This is Moose—dairy survivor, professional heart-stealer and owner of quite possibly the most adorable nose in existence...
08/09/2026

This is Moose—dairy survivor, professional heart-stealer and owner of quite possibly the most adorable nose in existence. 🐮🩷

Once facing a very different future, he’s now safe, deeply loved and living his very best life as a companion cow. Exactly as it should be.

A big shout and Mel and Paul for giving this sweet boy a forever home. You guys are amazing 🥰

A little shout out to some very special people doing incredible things for animals. ❤️Many of you will know our friends ...
02/06/2026

A little shout out to some very special people doing incredible things for animals. ❤️

Many of you will know our friends at Kindly Sanctuary in Armidale, NSW. Over the years, Naomi and the team have opened their hearts, their paddocks and their lives to so many animals in need — including many of our own Companion Cows rescue cows, who today are safe, loved and living the lives they always deserved because Kindly said yes when they needed somewhere to land.

Running a sanctuary is never easy. The work is relentless, the costs never stop, and the animals always come first. Right now, like many sanctuaries across Australia, Kindly are doing it tough. The ongoing drought, rising feed costs and the challenges that come with caring for so many animals through winter are placing enormous pressure on the sanctuary.

If you’ve ever smiled at a photo of a rescued cow, cheered on a sanctuary animal’s second chance, or simply believe animals deserve kindness and compassion, we would love you to support Kindly Sanctuary if you’re in a position to do so.

Whether it’s a donation, sharing their posts, following their page or simply helping spread the word, every bit of support makes a difference.

We are so grateful for everything Naomi and the Kindly team have done for animals, including so many of ours. They are the definition of compassion in action.

Please give them a follow and, if you can, consider making a donation to help them continue their lifesaving work. ❤️

Thank you, Kindly, for being a safe place for animals who have nowhere else to go

💚 From all of us at Companion Cows 🐄🌈🐄

Elvis and Fergus are two of the most recent boys rehomed through our Assisted Rehoming Program — a program designed to k...
20/05/2026

Elvis and Fergus are two of the most recent boys rehomed through our Assisted Rehoming Program — a program designed to keep cows safe when life circumstances change.

Not every animal we help comes directly from the dairy industry. Sometimes, they are deeply loved pet cows who were rescued years earlier by kind humans who stepped in when no one else would. Humans who bottle-fed them through the night, nursed them through sickness, loved them fiercely, and gave them a chance at life.

That was Elvis and Fergus. 💚🌈

Their first guardian saved them after an incredibly difficult start to life, nursing them back from almost death and loving them for years. But last year, after her circumstances changed, she reached out to us for help to ensure the boys would remain safe and protected for the rest of their lives.

Finding safe homes for large animals is never easy. Particularly cows. When circumstances suddenly change, these animals can become incredibly vulnerable to falling into the wrong hands. That’s why our Assisted Rehoming Program exists — to make sure Companion Cow owners/guardians have the support and resources they need to keep their animals safe.

After many months of searching, we finally found the perfect home.

Today, Elvis and Fergus now live on over 100 beautiful acres in Southern Tasmania with Mahalia, Tim and Chris, who absolutely adore them. The boys settled in almost immediately and now spend their days doing what every cow deserves — grazing peacefully, receiving endless scratches, treats, love and kindness. We receive regular updates from Mahalia, and seeing these gentle giants so relaxed, safe and cherished means more than we can explain. 🥰

We are so deeply grateful to every person who opens their heart and home to animals like Elvis and Fergus. Whether for a short chapter or a lifetime, every guardian who chooses compassion changes the entire trajectory of these animals’ lives.

Thank you Mahalia, Tim and Chris for giving these beautiful boys the future they deserve. 🤍

Proof that is better with cows 🍁🐄🌈. 📸 Pickles, The Wonder Cow 🥰🐄💚
08/05/2026

Proof that is better with cows 🍁🐄🌈.

📸 Pickles, The Wonder Cow 🥰🐄💚

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