Cattlebeast

In some cases the loss of a cattlebeast will affect the farmer, the loss of a few pounds on some speculation will distress the merchant, the loss of her raven locks, and the rose upon her cheek, and the fading charms that won admiration, will grieve the woman, more than the loss of immortal souls.

Cellular elements of the blood were similar to those of cattlebeast.

[…] which is how I first met him one day, hearing fiddle music from far away, so I went hurrying over the rise through the dwarf pines and juniper to a clearing where he was slowly dancing by himself in a field surrounded by cattlebeasts and the cattle were spotted black and white, the sky being an ice-blue that was hard on the eyes in the sunlight

There was water to be poured from the barrel into each tiny bowl, and the remains of a butchered cattlebeast to be cut into portions for each animal.

The vet was called but by the time he arrived this cattlebeast was in a pretty bad way so it was decided to butcher the steer to have the meat for the freezer.