Bulls without balls: French bid to attract runaway bovines fails

AFP ^ | Thu, Dec 16, 2004

[presidio9]

An attempt by French officials to tempt a group of 50 runaway bulls back to their pasture near Marseille by using heifers in heat has proven unsuccessful -- because most of the fugitive bovines are castrated.

The wild bunch of bulls wandered away from their enclosure near the village of Saint Remy de Provence December 7 and have resisted efforts to tempt them back.

On Tuesday, local authorities fearing for the animals' safety and that of residents and tourists introduced the females into the grazing land, saying they would be the "ultimate weapon" to lure the vagrant bovines back.

But Wednesday, the village's mayor, Lucien Palix, admitted that the bulls had not heeded the call to their baser nature, probably because 45 of them had been castrated.

He added that the hopeful heifers would remain in place for another few nights for lack of another plan.

If the bulls continued to roam unchecked, the "ultimate solution" -- culling the group -- would have to be implemented, he said.

[farmfriend]

Snickering.

[E.G.C.]

BTTT!!!!!!!

[Gingersnap]

Good Lord, the French are stupid.

Here the French actually raise cattle but are under the impression that steers form "relationships" rather than responding to hormonal cues (or the lack thereof).

The Stockshow is going to open here in a few weeks, maybe the French could check out the quarter horses and roping equipment.

I just can't believe these people are so clueless. Doesn't anybody ride? Doesn't anybody have cattle dogs? Don't they have stock prods and portable gates over there? Sheesh.

[small voice in the wilderness]

Metro-sexual bulls. It had to happen. Their manhood has been sauced and turned into French Mountain Oysters, just to please the gonad gourmands. And now the people complain when all the bulls want to do is turn their grazing land into Birkenstockyards. On a similar note, can lesbian cows be far behind? (Rosie exception noted)

[Mr. Keys]

Maybe those bulls are from "gay Paree".

[SierraWasp]

Are you hunting for Hitlery's Cattle Futures?

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

... haven't read the story yet, but judging by the headline... I didn't even know you could teach bulls to dance, let alone organize large dancing events in extra fancy dance halls!!!

These thing happen all the time. Angry feminist cattle symbolically feast on a special dish called 'mountain oysters' and moan that there aren't any real men and then do strange things unto each other. Also known as a Dyke Dance.

Janet Reno/Hillary Clinton bump....

[F.J. Mitchell]

Who can blame bulls for running away? Cattle eat their fodder.