People lined up in a barn on a recent Sunday to celebrate love and nature by kissing a cow.
It’s a free event that Lanette Cook, who works at the Luvin Arms Animal Sanctuary, just 30 minutes north of Denver in Weld County, said gives the cow — named Maybell — social interaction and also shares the sanctuary’s mission and Maybell’s love with others.
Lesli Tanski was one of the many people who pre-registered for the event just outside of Erie.
“I’ve been kind of a mess with everything going on in the world, and just being around animals is really soothing,” Tanski said as she waited in line for her turn with the 11-year-old brown cow with a little black on her face and a stripe of white around her muzzle…