A boy in Cambodia has been feeding cows directly to grow up since his mother had to leave her hometown to earn a living.

Tha Sophat, 18 months old, has been raised this way since he was seven months old, when his parents started leaving the village of Nokor Pheas, 312 kilometers from the Cambodian capital for Thailand.

Forced to wean early, Tha Sophat always cried bitterly and sickly, causing the boy’s grandfather to think of a way to feed cow’s milk directly every day to replace breast milk. Therefore, despite being 18 months old, Tha Sophat still has a habit of running to suck cow’s milk very naturally as part of her daily meal.

At first, the mother cow refused to let Tha Sophat get close to her precious milk, but after the boy was less than 2 years old and cried so hard, the mother cow also relented, and since then, every day Tha Sophat has been sucked from 1 to 1 2 times.

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And so far, Tha Sophat is used to running to milk cows every day. The cows also did not pay much attention to the fact that the boy Tha Sophat was sucking his milk.

The cow’s milk did not harm the boy’s health, on the contrary he was healthy and growing up fast. However, local officials disagreed with this, they advised Tha Sophat’s grandfather to stop feeding the boy cow’s milk because it was not safe. Besides, when growing up Tha Sophat may be ashamed of this action.