Bovine Fiction

They won't steer you wrong!
Top row: First Cow, The Story of Ferdinand,
Bottom row: Wilbur, Back at the Barnyard.

An index of works that revolve around cows, bulls, yaks, buffalo, bison, oxen, or any other bovinae. Bovid-like creatures such as minotaurs can be included too. To count, the work must feature a bovine as the main protagonist(s), the main threat, or otherwise central to the plot; merely having one in it doesn't qualify.

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Examples

Advertising

• Chick-fil-A Cows: The TV commercials for Chick-fil-A, A fast-food chain specializing in fried chicken, feature a group of cows using signs to tell the viewer to "Eat Mor Chikin" [sic].

Anime & Manga

• Ox Tales

Comic Books

• Amazing Cow Heroes

Comic Strips

• Cow And Boy

Eastern Animation

• The Cow
• Satellite Girl and Milk Cow

Films - Animated

• Annabelle's Wish: Annabelle is an adorable calf who wishes to fly like one of Santa's reindeer.
• Barnyard: Otis, his adoptive father Ben, and a few other characters are male cows.
• Bunyan and Babe
• Ferdinand: The story of a bull named Ferdinand based on the book.
• Home on the Range
• The Last Unicorn: Like the novel, The Red Bull plays a large part of the story, being the secondary antagonist and being responsible for the disappearance of the other unicorns.
• The Moo Family Holiday Hoedown
• Ounce Upon A Stable: A 2008 Christian animated film that's a re-telling of the birth of Jesus Christ starring talking animals. Esmay the cow is one of the main protagonists of the film.
  • The Lion of Judah: A 2011 followup to the 2008 animated film Ounce Upon A Stable starring the same animal cast. This time set during Jesus' final days on earth leading up to his arrest and crucifixion. This time Esmay the cow, Slinky the Mouse and the other animal characters try to save Judah the Lamb from getting sacrificed on Good Friday. The Lion of Judah is also the most kid-friendly version of Jesus' death and resurrection.
• Rocko's Modern Life: Static Cling: Heffer, a steer, is one of the main characters like the original show.

Films - Live Action

• The Cow and I
• The Cow And The President
• The Cowboys
• First Cow
• Go West: A cow named Brown Eyes follows the main character throughout the film.
• Minotaur
• One Man And His Cow ^note Original French title: La Vache (The Cow)
• Punyakoti: Based on a Karnataka folksong about a cow who always speaks the truth.

Literature

• The Book of the Dun Cow: The fantasy novel by Walter Wagernin Jr. stars a rooster as protagonist, but the Dun Cow is the messenger of the Big Bad who ultimately threatens Chanticleer's realm.
• The Crippled Lamb: A Christmas children's book by Max Lucado starring Joshua the Lamb who feels lonely and rejected from his own flock. Abigail the cow serves as a mother figure to Joshuda and later witnesses the birth of Jesus alongside encountering Mary and Joseph. The book gained an animated adaptation by StarToons in 1999.
• Holy Cow: In the humorous novel by David Duchovny, the titular cow leads a few other farm animals on an adventurous journey to find each Animal's concept of happiness away from the farm.
• Jack and the Beanstalk: Jack trading his family cow for magic beans is what starts the famous story.
• The Last Unicorn: Though King Haggard is the one holding the leash, The Red Bull is a demonic bull-like creature that is responsible for the rest of the unicorns disappearing.
• The Little Buffalo Herders
• The Story of Ferdinand: The story of a bull who likes to smell flowers.
• The books focusing on Suzy Sue— Achoo!, A Bed of Your Own!, and Have You Seen My Potty? — feature a cow as the leader of some farm animals.

Live-Action TV

• Wilbur: The title character is a calf.

Music

• Cows With Guns

Theatre

• Into the Woods and its film adaptation uses Jack's cow as a major plot device.

Video Games

• Bound by Blades: One of the three player heroes, Kota the bull.
• Them's Fightin' Herds: One of the fighters, and the protagonist of the first chapter, is a calf named Arizona.
• Til Cows Tear Us Apart
• Wild West C.O.W.-Boys of Moo Mesa

Visual Novels

• Minotaur Hotel

Web Original

• The Chanterelle And May Life: Chanterelle is an anthropomorphic cow and the best friend of May.
• Cow of the Wild
• Krazy Noodle Massacre: All characters are bovine humanoids.
• Las Lindas: The star of the series is an anthropomorphic cow named Mora, who runs her family's farm.
• The Witch and The Bull

Western Animation

• Back at the Barnyard: Continues the story of Otis and friends from Barnyard.
• Connie the Cow
• Cow and Chicken
• Ferdinand the Bull
• Looney Tunes Shorts:
  • Bully for Bugs: Where Bugs Bunny fights a bull named .
  • Porky's Poppa: Porky Pig tries to help the farm's cow, Bessie, from being out beat by a mechanical one.
• Mamemo: The rest of the cast besides Mamemo are anthropomorphic cows.
• Paul Bunyan: Babe the Blue Ox is one of the main characters.
• Rocko's Modern Life: Heffer Wolfe is a steer (not a cow) and is Rocko's best friend.
• Wild West COW Boys Of Moo Mesa
• Yakkity Yak

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