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THORTON, Colorado ( KCNC ) -- A Colorado cow sanctuary needs help, now more than ever.

On Oct. 29, more than $20,000 of equipment was stolen from Pay & Friends Inc. in Thornton.

The Adams County Sheriff's Office says it has no leads on who could have done it, leaving the nonprofit to pick up the pieces.

"Babies! Are you ready?" Gwen Buehler calls to her seven cows, who she calls "the babies."

Every day, Buehler feeds the cows four bales of hay.

"Throw it down, let me cut it, and then we can flake it and toss it in," said Buehler.

Lately, the work has been harder since Buehler arrived to find an outbuilding door that had been locked, open.

"My heart just dropped, my stomach dropped, and I thought somebody's been in there. So I opened it up, and

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