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Big Bertha, world's oldest cow at the time, raised $75,000 for cancer charities, 1992 (lemmy.world)
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[–] JovialSodium@lemmy.sdf.org 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For those curious how old, this picture seems likely to be from her 47th birthday. They were born on St. Patrick's day in 1945, and there's mention in the Wikipedia article of leading the St. Patrick day parade to aid with funding.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bertha_(cow)