It's so true. The animals stand there, munching their cud, in all of their intensive animalness, secret with their own mammalian and avian agendas. They might ignore you. This is as close as most visitors will get to a cow or a goat all year. And we never call or write.
Kids seem to be a lot more interested, at first.
But when the beasts don't come up to be petted as in a cartoon, the kids decide they would rather go for another ride on the Tango Twister. Rocket's K-9 Comets, a dog act, for instance. Don't try to resist. Disney and his gang have really lost something over the course of their years, and that something can easily be found at the Santa Cruz County Fair. Saturday and 10am-10pm Sunday.