Father, daughter drive 600 miles to save 10-day-old calves
A father and daughter teamed up to drive hundreds of miles to help save two calves and bring them to an animal sanctuary.
Filmmaker Joanna Zelman and her father Jared Zelman's journey is the subject of a new short film titled "Cow Trip" that's now streaming on The Dodo's YouTube channel.
Joanna Zelman, a former staffer at The Dodo, told ABC News' Danny New she and her dad were enlisted nearly four years ago to transport two 10-day-old calves named Mickey and Moose, who at the time were not thriving at a farm in Vermont.
The self-described animal lover said it wasn't a difficult decision to make.
Jared Zelman, a physician from Connecticut, added, "When your adult child asks you to travel with them, how can you say no?"
The pair lined their car with tarps and hay and headed to the Vermont farm to pick up Mickey and Moose, loading them into the back seat for the long journey to Rosie's Farm Sanctuary in Maryland.
The father and daughter said they took breaks along the way to feed Mickey and Moose, ultimately driving approximately 14 hours and about 600 miles to reach the animal sanctuary.
After a monthlong quarantine, Mickey and Moose were cleared to roam the sanctuary more freely and take their first steps on grass. Both Joanna Zelman and Jared Zelman said they have since continually returned to Rosie's Farm Sanctuary to visit the calves.
"They're still best friends," Joanna Zelman said of Mickey and Moose. "They lick each other, they groom each other, they run around together. Yeah, they're inseparable."
