THE ORIGIN STORY
The white calf on Lake Gulch Rd.
For the uninitiated, here is why a tiny white calf somehow became neighborhood folklore. Humanity has built spacecraft, decoded DNA, and still cannot convince Phyllis to remain inside a perfectly good fence.
01
Born mad. Stayed committed.
Phyllis is a bottle calf and a mini, and the working theory is that being mini has offended her personally since birth. She has spent the rest of her life making that everybody else's problem.
She escapes damn near anything you can put a calf in. Her fence is electric. It absolutely hurts to touch.
Not Phyllis. That little jolt is apparently just her morning cup of coffee.
02
Local fame did not humble her.
People now slow down driving past the pasture hoping for a glimpse of the little white menace. Five people in one day stopped to report her latest jailbreak.
03
The others are respectable citizens.
Her bovine friends have food, water, shelter, gratitude, and what appears to be a basic respect for property lines. Phyllis considers all of that a personal weakness.
04
What to do when Phyllis is loose
1.Honk.
2.Roll down the window.
3.Tell her she's embarrassing her family.
4.Know that Zoey has probably already chased her back seven times that day.