and the pigs didn't even seem to care

My cousin takes care of the animals at our nearby farm and I jumped at the chance to watch over them while he was away last week.  There are cows, pigs, chickens, a turkey and some sheep.  I arrived on my second day to see that two beautiful, healthy lambs had been born to one of the sheep.  Lambs are amazing.  It is impossible to take a photo of them that doesn't seem totally saccharin because they embody cuteness so much.  I put the lambs with their mama in a separate pen and looked up only to find that 3 of the cows had escaped into the part of the barn reserved for humans.  Much pushing, shoving and bribing (with grain) later I returned them to their rightful spots and wondered what the next day would bring.  When I returned the following morning, I discovered that another ewe had "lambed" but this one was not so lucky.  Her lamb came out a stillborn and it was heartbreaking to watch her mute attempts to wake her baby.  A quick reminder of how fragile life is. As I knelt down to wrap the corpse in a towel, the mama ewe came over and rubbed her cheek against mine.  It seemed that she was both looking for comfort and, at the same time, trying to comfort me, who was very clearly distraught at the scene.  I went back later that day to find yet another two new, this time, healthy lambs born to another ewe.  A quick reminder that life goes on.