My family has dealt with Mike in the past when we ran cows up there on CF&I property. In fact, I went to high school with the relatives of the deputy who was quoted in the newspaper.
My parents ranch east of Trinidad and have personally encountered 2 to 3 situations very similar to the one that Mike reported over the past 30 years.
Many people claim that the animals die and that varmints (coyotes/etc) eat the various parts reported missing when the animal owner finds the dead cow. I have personally observed a few occurrences and it was very similar to what was reported in this latest story. The udders, vulva, tongue and the side of the animals cheek were cleanly cut away.
For awhile, many of our neighbors thought it was a devil cult but for awhile, there were reported sightings of “silent” helicopters about the countryside?
Kind of coincidental, but the peak activity was during the mid 70’s. It was not long after that the US Army (Fort Carson) confiscated @ 240,000 acres from our neighbors across our headquarters to create the Pinon Canyon Manuever Site.
We just don’t know what/who is responsible for this?
MFO
We have raised cattle for 45 years and have noted the same thing, the small varmints prefer the tender parts first.
THANKS MUCH.
Quite a number of FREEPER ranchers have affirmed such to me and/or Las Vegas Dave either publicly on a thread or privately in FREEPMAIL.
I guess we should have kept statistics.
It seems to me that there is no way this could be done by wild animals - coyotes, mountain lions, etc... It’s not like they pick and choose which parts of the carcass to eat, and with no tracks, or blood, etc... Again, no way it’s animals.
If you’re looking at a person, or people doing this again there is the problem with no blood, and no tracks. It’s conceivable that the “surgery” could have been done elsewhere, but why even bother to move the carcass afterwards? Why not just dispose of it in another way?
The ONLY thing I can possibly think of as a way a human could do this and NOT leave blood? Perhaps some kind of pump like a dialysis machine, and instead of recirculating they just pull all the blood out, and THEN do the surgery? But, seriously... Even if they sucked ALL the blood out of the arteries, etc... wouldn’t there still be blood left in the tissue itself (like in the capillaries). Plus, there would be other bodily fluids BESIDES blood that would be found at the location seeing as they take the genitalia and parts of the digestive tract!
Very strange indeed... Perhaps someday, someone, will find out who, what and WHY this is happening...