Lovecraft had cats. Robert E. Howard had a cow…

“Yes, there was a cow. I saw the critter. Her name was Delhi, and hump shouldered to suggest Indian blood—Asian-Indian, I mean.” — E. Hoffmann Price to L. Sprague de Camp, 11th Feb 1977.

Bobby Derie snaps on the rubber gloves, and investigates in depth.

I can add that Lovecraft also had a cow. Apparently it was kept by his grandfather on the vacant lot which lay directly west of the Phillips mansion, when Lovecraft was a young boy…

… the family cow — a beloved possession reminiscent of the prehistoric Greene days ere my grandfather became an urban dweller.” (letter to Kleiner)