An adorable baby bull is ringing in his first Christmas in a hilarious fashion, by charging at his owner’s outdoor Christmas tree and knocking it to the ground.
Taylor Crassweller, 28, runs a farm in the Canadian town of Regina, Saskatchewan, with his family. On the farm, the family has a few different animals such as goats, little pigs, mini and big horses, and giant rabbits. The family has also discovered miniature Scottish Highland cows recently and started to breed them, with Theodore the bull being one of them.
Crassweller told The Epoch Times: “He’s going to be the herd sire of my program here, so one day he'll have a lot of babies running around, hopefully!”
Born on Aug. 23, Theodore will be four months old by Christmas.
Wanting to include the adorable baby bull in Christmas preparations, Crassweller loaded a small tree and decorations into a sleigh and pulled it into Theo’s outdoor pen. The bull, he said, was “super excited.”
“He saw that I was there so he knew something was going to happen,” Crassweller said. “When I pulled out the Christmas tree and stabbed it in the ground, he kind of jumped back and wasn’t really sure, kind of scared for a second, and then he got tough again. He knew that this tree wasn’t gonna mess with him!”
“[It] wasn’t super helpful, but it was super cute,” said Crassweller, whose family also runs a Christmas store. “And then once we actually like got everything set up and I was like, super happy with it. He knocked it over again.”
By this time, Crassweller had a feeling that Theo was not in the Christmas spirit.
“I was like, ‘If you want to be a Grinch, we’ll treat you like a Grinch!'” Crassweller said.
So using a Grinch mask that is lying around from last year’s Christmas celebrations, Crassweller wrestles the cheeky bull and puts the green Grinch mask over his head. While the clip ends there, Crassweller claimed that Theo kept the mask on for a while and it had the desired effect of curbing his Christmas chaos.
“He had been home for three or four days so he was still adjusting to life on the farm, and we didn’t have all our snow yet, so I had that bale set up ... he was walking after me and following me around, and then I set up my camera and started recording,” Crassweller said.
Although the clip captures only ten seconds of their playtime, Crassweller said he actually ended up playing with the adorable bull for a couple of hours.
Crassweller said that Theo has a big personality for a bull.
“I call him a ‘grass puppy,’” he said. “We don’t have any grass here right now because it’s winter where I live, and there’s lots of snow around, but he’s basically just like a puppy, he wants affection.”
Crassweller and his family imported Theo from Washington, where there’s a program that’s pioneering the miniature Scottish Highlands breed. As soon as Theo is old enough to sire, Crassweller hopes to breed him. He believes they'll be the first family in Canada to raise Scottish Highland cows.
In the meantime, Crassweller and Theo seem to be having the time of their lives.
“He sees me coming and he knows that he’s either getting a bottle, or he’s getting some scratches, or he’s getting some playtime,” Crassweller said. “He’s started to understand what ‘no’ means, which is really good when you’re raising a bull because eventually he’s going to get bigger and he’s going to get some horns to him. I need him to respect me and my space when he’s young.”
Besides the farm, the Crassweller family also have a garden center and greenhouse selling plants in the spring and summer, a Western-themed mini golf course, and are involved in educational outreach.
They also host a corn maze every year. Their 2022 corn maze, a spectacular 20-acre affair, has a very special feature: the maze is in the shape of a Scottish Highland cow as seen from above, a homage to Theo.
“He’s a showstopper!” Crassweller said. “We’ve done some meet-and-greets at our store here, so if you’re local in the area, you get to come by and give him some chin scratches.”
Needless to say, the response of people on seeing Theo is overwhelming.
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