“But you never witnessed anybody assaulting a cow with a scalpel...”
I never saw them doing it, but the rancher that ran them off his property with a shotgun saw them doing it and called the sheriff. It wasn’t a scalpel either, but what looked like a hunting knife. Everyone found out about it after.
That’s why we drove up to look for them that night. There had been reports of their clandestine activity in the the hills of New Era, OR……outside of Canby.
I doubt very much that someone using a hunting knife would leave the kind of evidence (actually lack of evidence) left in these cases.
Idiots playing ‘dress up pagan’ are probably all over the place. I doubt they are playing around with cattle in the numbers these reports indicate.
But apparently some people need to believe this stuff, so...