Dogy (Noun)
Meaning
Motherless calf in a range herd of cattle.
Classification
Nouns denoting animals.
Examples
- A stray cow in the range herd adopted the dogy and it started to follow her around for milk and protection.
- Since no mother was present to claim it, the dogy calf had a low chance of survival without human intervention or adoption by another cow.
- After weaning, the dogy would be integrated into the range herd and treated like any other cow.
- Ranchers often took a dogy calf in for bottle-feeding to increase its chances of survival and later returned it to its herd.
- In this harsh environment, only a few of the dogies survived without human assistance, struggling to find sustenance on their own.