How long would you leave a dead cow in the pasture? It has been a month!

[Wcross]

I first noticed a dead cow down the road about a month ago. I always thought the farmers tried to remove the dead animals asap, our county will even remove the carcass for free if you move it to the roadside. I guess it is too late to move it but he really ought to bury the thing, it is getting warm here & what better place for flies to thrive? The odd thing is that it appears the buzzards are not interested in it at all. I pass by there once or twice a week when I go to town & have never seen a buzzard eating.

[flvegan]

1. Your area buzzards are vegetarian.

I got the memo on the Vegwire.

[Wcross]

8. Damn, I hope they don't see the garden this summer!

Seriously though, we have a very "robust" buzzard population around here.

[trof]

2. Do you live near my brother-in-law?

He is probably the laziest sumbitch in the world.
One of his cows got stuck in the mud and just lay there and died.
And as far as I know it's still out there.

Reported by one of his nephews.
We don't live there.

[redqueen]

3. Wow... that's weird.

I pass by all kinds of cattle ranches and I've never seen a dead cow... that's how long they're left lying around around here.

Can you contact the local animal control service? Maybe they can get in touch with the owner and work something out?

[Wcross]

7. I saw eight one day (lightning strike), they were gone the next.

It was after a huge thunderstorm a few years back, the kind that turns the sky pea soup green. They had been sheltering under a large tree & got zapped. It even made the local paper.

[redqueen]

9. Oooh I love the green skies...

Poor things. :(

There was a tornado outside my office on Monday. Random!

[Wcross]

12. I respect green skies- usually means imminent danger.

I'm glad you survived the storm on Monday!

I took this picture a year ago, this storm killed three people 10 miles down wind of me that day.
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[redqueen]

13. Oooh what a gorgeous thunderhead.

I respect and also admire these things. I can't help it. I hope that doesn't mean I'm too terribly twisted.

I will PM you with something...

[lost-in-nj]

14. OMG

what an amazing picture......

WOW

I am sorry that people died though....


If only nature could be the awesome force she is without hurting anyone.....



lost

[KG]

4. No no he's not dead, he's, he's restin'!

[Bunny]

5. Pining for the fjords, maybe?

:D

[lost-in-nj]

6. GROSS OUR ALERT!!!! GROSS OUT ALERT!!!

don't say I didn't warn you











there was a dead deer on a county road here that goes through my town... now the town does not touch the county road and visa versa
no matter how many calls are made to either one :(

the deer was there for over a week, it bloated to obscene proportions...
then
it fucking exploded..... the stain is STILL there......

lost

maybe call the health dept.

[redqueen]

11. That happened in my area, but with an armadillo. GROSS OUT ALERT

The poor thing had been run over on the shoulder, and it was just left there... dunno why the buzzards didn't eat it... they eat most everything... but this thing just stayed there... and some rat bastards kept running it over again and again... by the end of this weeks-long nastiness there was barely anything left.

x(

[BreweryYardRat]

20. There's the remains of a raccoon on a major road near my school.

Saw it Monday or Tuesday when it was fresh. Still there as of 6 this afternoon.

[redqueen]

22. That is when it's most perplexing.

When it's on or near a major road.

My town only has three stoplights, but still. There was a young cute domesticated type animal left lying on what passes for a major road where I live, and it was left there for nearly a week. :(

[Pacifist Patriot]

10. Call you county Animal Control or Health Department

That is just wrong.

[KamaAina]

15. The ultimate "downer". There isn't a slaughterhouse nearby, is there?

That has a contract with the school lunch program? :puke:

[Wcross]

16. I'm afraid it is too far in the process to be processed.

I have heard rumors of a national hamburger chain whose processor liked to buy "downers". This was relayed to me ten years ago so I have no current information on if they are still doing it. I won't eat there or any chain if I can avoid it.

[triguy46]

17. Out here on the prairie, sometimes its too late to do anything when you find it...

Our lab brought back a dead cow a piece at a time over the course of a winter once.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

18. You just don't have the right spirit.

"Steenie decides that Josh needs some lessons on how to survive in Sagrado. He enlists to help of Marcia, the daughter of the local minister. They are without doubt the two best poeple in town to teach Josh how to survive in Sagrado. Steenie read all his father's medical books and knows all the Latin and Greek medical terms for all the parts of the body. He can cuss you out for ten minutes, and you'll never have any idea what he really said--and what's better, neither will his teachers! Marcia, on the other hand, is a typical "preacher's kid," she specializes in dirty jokes. Every year she goes to church camp and comes back with a whole year's supply--the worst ones in town! Marcia and Steenie decide that the first thing Josh needs to learn is how to play Chicken, Sagrado-style.

On Saturday, they take him out to lunch: the greasiest, hottest tacos and burritos they can find--as many as Josh can eat, and really more than he wants. (Remember, Josh is from Atlanta, and his stomach isn't used to Mexican food.) Then they go for a walk. Josh isn't used to the high altitude, and he's lagging behind, panting for breath, his stomach feeling worse by the minute, when he notices that Steenie and Marcia have stopped and are talking. They're at the top of this little rise and are pointing to something below them, and saying things like, "Boy, this is gonna be a great game of Chicken--the best we've had in a long time!" "Yeah, Josh is really gonna learn to play the right way!" "He's one lucky fellow--it wasn't this good when I learned to play," and so on. Josh is really wondering what's going on, till he gets to the place where they're standing and looks down. There in front of him is the town dump, and in the middle of the dump is a dead horse, a very dead horse--bloated, covered with maggots, and smelling horrible.

The object of the game is to walk, or run, up to the horse, touch it, and walk, or run, back to the starting point, which is back just far enough that you can take a deep breath without throwing up. If you walk up, you have to walk back, which takes longer, but you aren't so likely to get out of breath. If you run up, you run back, which won't take as long, but you may lose your breath, and have to take another. Marcia says, "Ladies first!" Marcia is a walker. She walks up to the horse, touches it-"nice horsie"--and walks back. Steenie is a runner. He dashes up to the horse, gives it a kick-"Hey horse"-and runs back.

Josh just can't believe this stupid game! And he's so busy thinking about these small-town kids and their dumb games that he doesn't see the empty beer bottle lying right in front of the horse-the bottle Steenie and Marcia have very carefully avoided. He trips and falls and slides right into home plate, which is, of course, the horse.

Now, what do you do when you fall down suddenly? You lose your breath. And what do you have to do when you lose your breath? Take another one. Well, that's what Josh does, he can't stop himself, and that's when he loses both his lunch and the game of Chicken. When he gets back to where Steenie and Marcia are, they're still howling with laughter, hardly able to talk. But when she gets her breath back, Marcia says, "You know, Josh, we've been playing the game wrong all these years. You're not supposed to just touch the horse--you've got to get in there and hug him like a brother!" "

-Red Sky At Morning by Richard Bradford

[MichiganVote]

19. Dead deer along Michigan roadways everyday

[Wcross]

23. Oh, we have those along with coyotes.

It just seems odd that a farmer would leave it to rot in the pasture with the other cows trying to graze.

[Firespirit]

21. Buzzards are avoiding it?

Maybe they consider it holy. It could have its own cult, for all anyone knows.




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