[SES1066]

How many EXPERIENCED farmers are hurt every year by DOMESTICATED livestock? Animals, even dogs, can get a 'notion' and BANG, you are hurt or even dead!

To my mind, one of the deadliest inventions made by man has been the 'selfie stick'! Yep, get out of the car at Yellowstone for that lifetime picture! Oops, a rather short lifetime ...

WE, and I definitely INCLUDE myself, have become very urbanized with little interaction with true wildlife. Too frequently we take our perceptions from TV & movies and think it is real life. They see someone ride a horse and touch a wolf and think they can do the same!

Alfred, Lord Tennyson, put it clear in his 1850 poem, " In Memoriam A. H. H.";
Tho’ Nature, red in tooth and claw
With ravine, shriek’d against his creed –

[metmom]

I know a dairy farmer who ended up with several broken ribs because a cow he was next to decided to turn her head and see what was going on.

She bashed him in the side but good.