Posted on 07/15/2011 12:23:26 PM PDT by zippythepinhead
"They overdrink because they're thirsty."
It seems like everyone is feeling the heat this summer. Human, canine, feline, or even bovine, we're all at the mercy of high temperatures.
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Of course it makes sense. Next time, I’ll try to sober up by drinking more beer.
>> Next time, I’ll try to sober up by drinking more beer.
Yeah! It’s counterintuitive, but what the hey, it’s worth a shot. :-)
Sorta like the Obamaloon and Mooochelle at a McD’s. eh?
:-)
It would be slightly more believable if they got the amount that a typical adult bovine drinks per day right.
20 to 30 gallons per day is rather more like it in the summer. 10 gal/day might... MIGHT be a winter expectation. Might. In the Great Basin, they drink more, because even in winter, the humidity is low.
Water intoxication can kill you quickly. Some radio station had a contest where the winner simply had to drink the most water. Some woman drank too much and she died.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16614865/ns/us_news-life/t/woman-dies-after-water-drinking-contest/
This vet isn't that stupid, or he wouldn't be able to sign his name. What's appalling is how stupid he thinks everyone else is, when he gives them such an incredibly insulting "explanation."
The question, Dr. Jackass, is why drinking water doesn't slake the cattle's thirst. And why the rate at which they drink is suddenly lethal. After all, cattle tend to live in hot climates. Could it be that something else is making them feel heat, that drinking water doesn't assuage? Something besides the sun?
Oh I know, that's tinfoil hat stuff. Better to just decide that it's perfectly normal for cattle to forget how to drink water. Oh yeah, THAT's reasonable.
/rant
LOL!
Yes too much power. They drink until the pass out and then reload. Never enough.
Exactly. I question the science behind it unless it is if they are so dehydrated then they drink uncontrollably and staturate to quickly and die from water intoxication.
Keep in mind that in the typical west Texas cattle pasture there ain’t necessarily a whole lot of shade. Common sense might say that it’s just too damn hot and they drink trying to cool off. And drink, and drink, and drink ‘til they die, either from water intoxication and/or from heat stroke.
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