Posted on 06/23/2021 7:36:51 AM PDT by artichokegrower
PICO RIVERA, CA — A herd of cows stampeded through the streets of Pico Rivera Tuesday night after breaking free from a slaughterhouse. The stampede sent one person to a hospital, and a Los Angeles Sheriff's deputy shot one of the cows amid the chaos.
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Sorry, cows will follow you any where if they think that you have a bucket full of grain. Their ears are better than their noses, so they are easily fooled by a bucket with some gravel and dirt if you shake it a little bit. Having done this from the time I was 4 or 5 years old I sometimes forget that others do not know this.
Thanks. Sounds like our doggie. He can be in the far part of the house, but he can hear a baggy unzip in the kitchen or hear the refrigerator door open and POOF, he materializes at my feet.
And my JV lost to theirs 42-7!
This applies to cows that are used to being fed grain to supplement their diets. They all prefer grain over eating grass, hay or even alfalfa.
Cow in the pool, dog in the pool, cowboys lasso the cow. Cow out da pool, dog out da pool, what in the world?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IROXXzb1oao
I grew up on a dairy farm and did not know cows had a chaos. /s
I went to Whittier High and Pioneer High. Know that area.
Our wiener dog is the same way, and she is a master beggar. We of course cannot give her anything with chocolate and she feels that this is extremely unfair of us.
One of our previous wiener dogs found a bag of mini Hershey bars while we were out. He got into it and ate all the candy. When my wife got home she found chewed up wrappers and followed the trail back to the kitchen where he was looking bad. My wife carried him outside and put him down in the grass. He fell on his side and then got up and barfed out a bunch of wrappers and chocolate. Then he ran off like everything was fine and went potty. After that he acted like nothing had happened and went the rest of the day with no problems.
Another time he pulled the table cloth off of our dining room table and started gobbling down an entire batch of carefully frosted Christmas cookies. My wife heard the commotion, but he managed to eat about a dozen of them before she was able to get them away from him. He managed to keep his weight under control because he was not a pig with dog food. He lived to be 17 years old, and was a very special dog despite his sweet tooth.
Everything most people know about cows... they learned in western movies and TV shows. As you and I know cows are typically smarter and much less panicky than horses. If a group of horses or pigs get out... good luck getting them all back behind the fence. The chaos in this situation was most likely caused by the police panicking.
“One of the cows was shot!”
A police spokesman cleared the officer of any wrongdoing saying, “Our officer mistook the cow for a dog.”
When I was just a kid, our cattle looked like a stampede when they were just coming up from the bottom land to get fed. LOL
They are smarter than they look!
Our dog knows the cheese wrapper sound better than anything else. I think the first word he learned was “cheese.” You can leave a piece of cheese on the counter and he’ll go to the kitchen and start talking about it.
I understood completely. "sweet feed with molasses" was like crack to our cows.
I felt bad for the cows. They knew what fate lay ahead for them — something bad —and made a bid for freedom. No, I don’t eat anything with 4 legs.
I also went to Whittier High and my father taught vocal music at Pioneer.
I was looking for the mistook cow for a dog post.
What would you have done with the gravel in a bucket ?
El Rancho High School's football team under coach Ernie Johnson was fabulous. In 1966, they were arguably the best high school football team in the whole USA. On October 28 of that year, they beat my Whittier High School Cardinals 48-0 despite the fact that Whittier's quarterback was Bob Chandler, a future USC Trojans and NFL star.
I am not sure how, but they actually do know much of the time especially when they get older. We had a huge bull that we sent out to “work” as a stud and he gladly got into the stock trailer with no prompting time after time. When we sold him and he was going to be slaughtered he refused to get into the trailer. My uncle who was a rodeo guy grabbed him by the horns and tried to pull him up the ramp. The bull backed away from the trailer and took off with my uncle still holding onto his horns.
They made a couple laps around the field with my uncle still holding onto his horns. Until the bull got tired. Then my uncle led him into the trailer with the rope tied to his harness. And that is the last we saw him. He was normally very tame and we would sit on him while he was eating when we were little.
It is sad but it is our way of life. We raise them, we feed them, and we take care of them... then we eat them. At least our cows, steers, and bulls have a better life than some running around green fields and having adventures together.
Great Mongo gif....
Thanks.
Forgot the Yes and No advisors on the rear. Great stuff.
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