not on sundays.

No pics of his wife?

Andrew Wiggin: not on sundays.

Yeah you would think Supply Side Jesus would be OK with a 16% increase in sales by opening on Sundays.

What a Holstein in a summer meadow might look like.

Mad cow.

My son just wrote two poems about cows...

"Cows" - A Haiku

Lazy, quiet, great
Good for mowing, great to eat
Stupid useless cows

And now for the Limerick

Oh yay, it's Super Cow!
Oh how do we need you now!
To save the day
Or finish our hay
But now you are puppy chow :(

Nobody suspected he was packing an Uzi.

WTF! "Parks says he went for his shotgun, and fired three blasts at the animal. The cow then slowly walked away, and was eventually put down by a veterinarian."

THE COW JUST WALKED AWAY!?

Buggar: Nobody suspected he was packing an Uzi.

We will fight for bovine freedom and hold our large heads high

KimNorth: WTF! "Parks says he went for his shotgun, and fired three blasts at the animal. The cow then slowly walked away, and was eventually put down by a veterinarian."

THE COW JUST WALKED AWAY!?

Yeah, they can take a serious hit. You really have to want to kill the damn things and then be well enough to work at it for a while.
Unless youre ready with other tools. *snicker*

for the peeves

me myself and irene anybody? "poor girl is lucky to be alive"

tich: me myself and irene anybody? "poor girl is lucky to be alive"

i was going to post something about that but i figured i'd get hated on for liking that movie.

And my Dad didn't understand why I didn't want to walk through a pasture of cows last time we went hunting. I've been charged at by a cow, they're scary farking animals when they get pissed. Usually they'll run 30 feet and graze, but when one of them decides to get pissed you have 900 pounds charging at you. I've seen them try to hide under each other when a car back-fired, and they fell over each other. But on foot, face to face, and they charge, it's not much of a laugh.

The first time I considered getting a handgun to carry with me on hikes was when I saw a mountain lion 200 yards ahead of me. The thing that clinched my decision was coming face to face with that stray cow.

And 2CountyFairs, great movie. That's a lot of nuts.

Rapmaster2000: [wrcb.images.worldnow.com image 640x480]

What a Holstein in a summer meadow might look like.

Also: What a 900 pound cow with rabies won't look like. A healthy Holstein will run over 30% more than 900 pounds.

Oh yeah, and the picture is straight from Wikipedia.

Might have been a werecow (new window).

aseras: I've also seen cows step into a small hole headfirst and die of starvation because they will not ever back up

Damn you got patience OR the cow dies real fast of starvation, or you found a dead cow with its feet in a hole and assumed it died waiting for a rescue?? Do you have any naked pictures of said cow? neCowphilia lol

do cows get rabies?

four95: [Eat mor chikin billboard]

There has to be a dozen of these along I-85 in the Atlanta area with the cows in various... positions.

swangoatman: aseras: I've also seen cows step into a small hole headfirst and die of starvation because they will not ever back up

Damn you got patience OR the cow dies real fast of starvation, or you found a dead cow with its feet in a hole and assumed it died waiting for a rescue?? Do you have any naked pictures of said cow? neCowphilia lol

Said cow would die of dehydration long before it starved, if it was healthy going into the hole. Also, while a cow doesn't like to back up, it can do so. While it's not a smart animal, generally it'll do it once it starts getting sufficiently hungry/thirsty.

and yet no pics of dead cows worth fapping to.

This is udderly ridiculous.

The cow probably would have died if it was launched out of castle by the French.

/C'mon, everybody hates chicken and cows.



//has anybody read Going Bovine?

what's subby's mom doing in Georgia anyway?

My sister used to be a chef at a fancy restaurant with a trout stream. The customer would pick the trout out from the in store stream and they would cook it on the spot. As fresh as you can get without eating it alive.

Her job was to kill the trout, fillet it and cook it. One day the trout the customer picked out bit her on the thumb while she was busy killing it. She came to me expecting sympathy only to find me laughing my butt off instead. I told her she was killing the fish, how could she complain about the fish fighting back?

/did not go over well
/not a vegetarian, but believe every creature has the right to self defense
/eating yummy pork tonight :)

E_Henry_Thripshaws_Disease: do cows get rabies?

I would expect that there are few animals which are immune to rabies.

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E_Henry_Thripshaws_Disease: do cows get rabies?

Where do you think McDonald's "Pink Slime" comes from?

Really the infection is just a side effect of Ronald McDonald being "intimate" with the herd before slaughter.

E_Henry_Thripshaws_Disease: do cows get rabies?

In all seriousness...yes, cows CAN get rabies, and so can horses. It's rare, and usually the result of them being bitten by some OTHER rabid critter, but yes, they can get rabies.

In fact, in South America vaccination of cattle for rabies is routine (in areas that can afford vaccination programs) because it's not all that uncommon for cattle to contract rabies from vampire bat bites (vampire bats tend to be frequent carriers of rabies and tend to prefer vamping off of cattle).

Livestock rabies happens here in the US, too; there's been the occasional case in this decade alone where rodeo attendees have been called in for mass antirabies prophylaxis due to rabid livestock (the case linkied to involved a Quarter Horse at a Texas rodeo, but there's also been cases of rabid livestock at Tennessee rodeos and livestock shows).

In the same area where the rabid horse ended up at a rodeo, a rabid cow was found about two and a half years ago--like the case in Georgia, this seems to be connected with a rabies epidemic in wild carnivores (in this case, skunk rabies bleeding over into wild felid populations). The thread's linked article points to an association with a possible bobcat attack, also indicating something similar could be happening in Georgia.

Cattle rabies is NOT terribly infrequent, either--Minnesota had at least four recorded cases of bovine rabies in the past year, and no less than three cases within a five-mile radius of one particular area in the past decade. (These seem to be associated with a rabies epizootic in skunks in the area.)

(Of note--in the Southeast US, there has been an ongoing rabies epizootic in populations of wild carnivores for the past decade or so, particularly raccoons and skunks; it ISN'T entirely shocking in this regard to see the occasional rabid moo-cow.)

/have had to explain to the SO that raccoons that are out in the daytime are to be considered rabid unless proven otherwise--yes, being about in broad daylight is a known sign of rabies in raccoons

And as a related aside--the weird thing isn't that moo-cow got rabies in an area with a known rabies epizootic ongoing (that is apparently severe enough that bobcats are now contracting rabies and infecting cows--usually it's raccoons, foxes, or skunks in the US that are sources of bovine rabies) but that it was one of the rare cows that got furious rabies.

(Yes, you can have two different manifestations--"furious" rabies, where one becomes psychotic and convulsy when rabid, or paralytic or "dumb" rabies, where one doesn't go insane but pretty much suffers from ascending paralysis.

(Different critters tend to have one or the two being more common--humans and cats tend to go into "furious rabies" more, cattle tend to go into paralytic/"dumb" rabies more frequently. Apparently one of the distinctive signs of rabies in cattle tends to be a distinctive bellow resulting from the vocal cords being paralysed...)

Also--of fun note--of the five known people who've survived rabies thanks to the Milwaukee protocol for rabies treatment (which basically involves placing the unfortunate party in a very deep medical coma and injecting a metric shiatload of antivirals and hoping for the best), pretty much all of them seem to have initially presented with more of a paralytic form of rabies, rather than the "furious" kind of rabies. (We don't yet know if it's because the Milwaukee protocol works better on persons with paralytic rabies or if it's because of differences in timing or in rabies virus subtypes in the wild.)

rev. dave: I would expect that there are few animals which are immune to rabies.

opossums are highly resistant, but that's it, no creature has been found to be immune, it can even infect reptiles. sturdy little virus.....