Ranch life is interesting.  When we go out to feed the buffalo, it’s always hard to leave them.  There’s something calming about feeding and caring for animals and grass.  We suspect it’s some primal agricultural impulse, some ancient knowledge imbedded in the very genes that make us human, that tells us that caring for animals and plants IS survival.  Just petting a dog or cat touches that same need to protect and care for the animals who mean so much to our psychological life, we think.