Glad it struck that emotional chord with you, it's exactly what I was going for.
I can't agree with you more about the cow... On my final playtest it started to get to me as well. To be honest I found quite a lot of the animal audio a little abrasive, I think the system I had built to deal with them all sonding off just wasn't great. So unfortunately it just became one of those things that had to go through due to the final crunch.
Definitely want to spend some more time on audio overall in the next one.
Thanks a bunch for playing!! :)