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To: terycarl
"why would cattle, grazing in a zillion acre field, threaten the tortoise???"

did you ever have a cow step on you?

(me neither, but it can't be good.)

26 posted on 04/11/2014 7:14:33 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Paladin2

When this story first began to emerge, I asked more than once as to where Bundy’s senator Harry Reid was. Now I know. He’s in the backroom counting his bribes and illegal campaign contributions.


27 posted on 04/11/2014 7:24:39 PM PDT by Robwin
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To: Paladin2

Try reading post 20—and as they’d been ranching for 120 years before anyone said boo about the turtle, it seems likely that the turtle and the cow can co-exist.


34 posted on 04/11/2014 8:11:15 PM PDT by Hieronymus ( (It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged. --G.K. Chesterton))
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To: Paladin2
"why would cattle, grazing in a zillion acre field, threaten the tortoise???" did you ever have a cow step on you? (me neither, but it can't be good.)

yes I have, and the step would NEVER kill a tortoise. I understand that the turtles do much better where they share the grazing land with cattle than they do when seperated...

37 posted on 04/11/2014 8:20:39 PM PDT by terycarl (common sense prevails over all else)
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To: Paladin2

You and I both know that all animals will avoid stepping on an obstacle in every instance, even while on the run, if they are able. Sure-footedness demands it. Cattle graze head down for the most part and even when on the move at a walk they watch what’s in front of them. Hunt much? I suppose you simply forgot the “sarc/” tag.


41 posted on 04/11/2014 8:42:59 PM PDT by chulaivn66 (Semper Fidelis)
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To: Paladin2
***did you ever have a cow step on you? (me neither, but it can't be good.)**********

LOL my husband did. Our cow had her head in the grain bucket I was holding and he went around behind her spraying her to keep the flies off. She just shifted her hind legs a bit and he let out a yell and tried to push a 1500 pound cow off his foot. With her head the grain bucket she wasn't moving, couldn't help laughing as he tried to move that cows hind end. He swore at me and I took the bucket away from her so she could move....lucky the floor was not cement, dirt and straw or he would have had a broken foot....

56 posted on 04/11/2014 10:40:36 PM PDT by goat granny (.)
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