[bicycle thug]

ping

[glock rocks]

mmmmm. bison.

[Timocrat]

From personal experience I can tell you these animals will charge thru gates, fences and the walls of buildings, although they could be hand fed, if you kept your eye on them!

[DefCon]

I ate one of them things one time
(well, I ate PART of one of 'em anyway)
and I hope they get loose all over the place.
Not that they would be much 'sport' in hunting them,
but them is some mighty tasty animals, them buffalos is.

But can you imagine one a them big summabitches
getting hit by a car on the interstate ?

[76834]

The ranchers raise a few around here in Grand Central Texas.
Totally excellent eating, especially when roasted over a grill.
Would advise the locals up there to have your rifles handy and plenty of space in the deep freeze.

[doug from upland]

The last time they escaped was at the bison-tennial.

[stboz]

Where is Shumanitou-tanka-owhashe when we need him?

[Salvation]

Home, home on the range......

[dirtydanusa]

And you got mad when the neighbors dog poops in your yard, imagine a bison!!!

[Danette]

This reminds about my uncle who owns a 1200 acre farm in N.D.. His 6 buffalo got out of the pasture and were roaming the dirt roads. He tracked them down and shot them dead on the spot. He said once they get out, they never stay in a pasture again and they had to be put down.

He called the locker plant and all the meat was spoken for before the last buffalo could be delivered for processing.

[Carry_Okie]

The shaggy beasts are indigenous to the state but are now classified as domestic livestock, not wildlife, under animal and health statutes that govern their importation into Oregon. But that hasn't kept them confined to fenced pastures.

False.

Neither wolves nor bison can be considered "indigenous" from the evolutionary perspective. Bison were introduced by "native" Americans when they came here over the Arctic land bridge. Pollen and mud strata from the period indicate that the animals did not have enough forage in the Arctic to have willingly crossed the Bering bridge but had to have been driven. Wolves arrived about the same time apparently following the herds.

[gitmo]

The real problems arise when they are in rut.

[Beck_isright]

It's a terrifying thought that they are allowed to roam freely like this one does.