Posted on 10/02/2019 12:50:33 PM PDT by RummyChick
SALEM, Ore. — The first dead bull was found in a timbered ravine in eastern Oregon. There was no indication it had been shot, attacked by predators or eaten poisonous plants. The animal's sex organs and tongue had been removed. All the blood was gone.
In the next few days, four more Hereford bulls were found within 1.5 miles in the same condition. There were no tracks around the carcasses. Ranch management and law enforcement suspect that someone killed the bulls. Ranch hands have been advised to travel in pairs and to go armed.
Ever since the bulls were found over several days in July, Harney County Sheriff's Deputy Dan Jenkins has received many calls and emails from people speculating what, or who, might be responsible.
The theories range from scavengers such as carrion bugs eating the carcasses to people attacking the animals to cause financial harm to ranchers. One person suggested that Jenkins look for craters underneath the carcasses, saying it would be evidence the bulls had been levitated into a spaceship, mutilated, and then dropped back to the ground.
Jenkins, who is leading the investigation that also involves state police, has run into only dead ends, with no witnesses. "If anyone has concrete information or knows of any cases that have been solved in the past, that would definitely be helpful," he said from his office in Burns.
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Put Mueller on it. He’s good at sifting bullshit.
Hereford bulls are worth a lot, they can breed for years and years. Maybe some PETA types wanting to stop a breeding operation or some weird Asian looking for fertility medicine.
I heard stories of cattle mutilations like this back in the 1980s. At the time it was thought the perpetrators belonged to a Satanic cult.
Ping to the weird.
This is a mystery that has been unsolved for at least 40 years.Its happened all over the mid West of the United States.
Oh... the tongue is not a sex organ? woof...
Bulls are kept alone most the time. They are too big for predators to carry off. Eagles will dive on their back and peck out the eyes. Then the bull just stands there while the eagle rips at the soft tissues and those easiest to remove while alive. Eagles won’t eat from a dead carcass. Once the bull gets sepsis, it dies. Mystery solved. I’ve seen it a few times.
In Oregon you can't trade or give or lend a firearm to anyone, even a relative, without going through a FFL agent.
Bulls are kept alone most the time. They are too big for predators to carry off. Eagles will dive on their back and peck out the eyes. Then the bull just stands there while the eagle rips at the soft tissues and those easiest to remove while alive. Eagles won’t eat from a dead carcass. Once the bull gets sepsis, it dies. Mystery solved. I’ve seen it a few times.
There was a similar thread posted several weeks ago in which I posted that my family had this same thing happen to our young Hereford bull. That was in 1975 and we lived 15 miles north of White Salmon, Washington, along the Columbia River
Eagles. Not the band but the bird.
Fell of a cliff into the ravine or struck by lightning?
Yep, just aliens doing the jobs that “Muricans refuse to do: mutilate cattle.
Take the pointer and show us on the chart the location of the Angus.
I love that commercial.
Only if they managed to shoot themselves twice in the back of the head.
Yep, that's my thought too and I'm sticking to it.......
Ms Howe has been writing about it for dexades. She has extensive research on the phenomenon, and the strange mutilations have occurred in other species, too.
Thanks for the clarification.
That’s what Bubba said about Monica too
Interesting.
Does Ms Howe have a first name, or is it Ms?
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