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A baby cow for the camel nobody would play with

Sir Camelot, a baby camel, tried to make friends with the other animals at the rescue. Every one of them ran away from him. more

"He would just literally stand in the middle of the field and scream," says the woman who cares for him. Plenty of people have had days like that. "Obviously he was lonely."

That's how Benjamin Button came about. Ben was a rescue calf, two weeks younger than Camelot and very shy. When they first met, the two looked startled, as if neither could work out what the other one was.

A night in the barn changed things. The pair "just kind of bonded through that gate." After that they started going out together during the day. It was instantly, she says, "like two children at play."

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Sir Camelot, a baby camel, tried to make friends with the other animals at the rescue.

Play, for these two, means zoomies. Camelot chases Ben around the field, and it is, in her words, "like tag, you're it."

The calf needed this as much as the camel did. Ben had never even been outside before, and Camelot helped him come out of his shell. Seeing him run around outside for the first time with Cam, she says, was really cool.

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Ben had never been outside before, and now he runs the field with Camelot.

Now "him and Ben are just inseparable," and they carry on like brothers. "Is that your pillow?" she asks at one point. Soon after, it is "Benjamin, get off your brother."

Camelot does have one flaw. He doesn't like to share. At one point he throws a real temper tantrum, flat on the ground with his legs flailing. He also hoards the straw bales and won't let Benjamin Button anywhere near them, even though Ben wants to play with them too.

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Ben stays close by while his friend is down on the grass.

A camel and a cow were never the obvious pair, and she knows it. "It's just one of my crazy ideas that worked out, thankfully." Camelot still keeps the straw to himself. These days, at least, he has someone to keep it from.

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