SIK: Awang is indeed a unique 'child'.
He is not close with his mother, refuses to sleep where he is supposed to and throws a tantrum when forced to do something he does not like.
He refuses to eat solids but enjoys slurping milk from his favourite over-sized milk bottle twice a day.
Who is he? You may say he is a special child with special needs.
He is a 5-month-old male calf.
His owner Maizani Yaris, 48, said when Awang was born he was weak as his mother did not produce sufficient milk to feed him.
"I was afraid he would die. So I approached the Veterinary Department to get special milk for him,” she said.
She buys the special milk from Sik District Veterinary Services Department.
“ I feed him twice a day, at 9am and 6.30pm," said Maizani from Kampung Lubuk Tualang, here.
Maizani said Awang sleeps at the side of her home instead of sleeping with his mother and the rest of the cattle herd in the cattle pen which was located some 100 metres from her house.
“Awang's mother calls out for him in the nights, but Awang ignores her.
"Instead Awang stands in the front yard of my house and calls out to me. He wants me to caress him.
"Only after I pat him, carress him and hug him will he allow me to go back into the house," she said.
Maizani said usually at about 11am she would take her 12 cattle to a nearby abandoned paddy field so that they can graze on the grass.
"However Awang refuses to go with the rest of herd. Instead he will loiter around the front yard of my house.
"Despite Awang's mother calling out to him, he will refuse to budge. I can sense that his mother is worried. After grazing she will leave the rest of the herd and walk over to check on Awang," Maizani said.
But things are beginning to change and now there are days when Awang follows his mother and the rest of the herd to graze at the paddy field.
But after grazing, Awang does not go back to the cattle pen with the rest of the herd. Instead he saunters over to front yard of Maizani's house for his evening drink.
Maizani, a mother of two, is worried that Awang might get addicted to milk instead of grazing like other cattle do.
"I will get advise from the Veterinary Services Department on what to do. Maybe in another three months I will stop his milk feed.
"For the time being I am happy Awang has joined his mother and is independent like others in the herd,." she said.