there are two absolute truths about the holey cow, which you should know from the outset. first, every person in any way affiliated with mississippi state university, or even the city of starkville, has heard of the holey cow, to say nothing of having personally gotten up in that mess. secondly, no one from outside the region believes for even one second that you are not making that shit up. seriously, they say, you are making that shit up.
the holey cow lives at the vet school on the campus of mississppi state university. and, just in case you hadn't gathered, the holey cow is exactly what it sounds like: a cow with a hole in it. you can see the cud!
every year in grade school, we would take a field trip to the msu vet school. there would be face painting, and bunnies, and soft serve in the cafeteria. even if your parents never let you have ice cream (jo durst!!) the highlight was still the holey cow. yes, from the tender age of six, i have known what digestion looks like. and honestly, it doesn't look that gross. but the smell!
i am assuming, but have not verified, that the cow in the photo is not the same cow from my youth. i imagine every few years some lucky cow wins the crappiest lottery outside of a high school fiction anthology (shirley jackson!!) and gets fitted with a gut portal. although, maybe, gut portals are the secret to bovine immortality, and that mother is thirty some odd years old.
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