Poddy / Bobby

When I was a kid we had dairy cattle so part of the chores for us kids was feeding the calves from a bucket with a nipple containing a milk mix so their mothers could be milked and the milk in turn sold. Sounds kind of cruel now that I think about it,but it was a business and that is what had to be done but once again I digress! I don't remember having a special name for these bottle fed calves but have come to discover that they are often called poddy calves or bobby calves. With that part said a calf was reported to the police in New Zealand to be wandering the streets. They picked up the calf in the back of the squad car and took it to the station but once they got there they realized they had nothing to feed it other than skim milk which it refused, so the calf had to spend the night hungry in a cell until the next morning when it was delivered to animal control for re-homing. I have no idea what happens to local calves if their owners can't be located as our local animal shelter only has facilities for cats and dogs.