Athletes Show Off Their PetsFrom a football player and his ferrets to a skier with his donkeys, athletes love their animals on the side

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Updated: Wednesday May 26, 2010 | 07:45 AM EDT

ROSS OHLENDORF

The Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher has a cow named Marina on his family's longhorn cattle farm, and Marina has been around for 15 years. Among Ohlendorf's many tasks on the farm? Naming the calves.

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