Animal thread

[finicky]

Mostly for videos that amuse or promote fellow feeling for creatures (as we are animals but of a lower order)
Already a thread by Julia: https://www.aussiestockforums.com/threads/animal-lovers-rspca.13710/

 

[finicky]

 

[Dona Ferentes]

so cute

 

[frugal.rock]

Wish I could do that in public

 

[farmerge]

Since my successful heart valve replacement which is now a bovine one, thought I would test it out on a favourite very docile pet cow.
Of course I did this when "She Who is Never Wrong" wasn't home.
The cow had a bit of a sniff and waited for the ear scratch and pat and then wandered off to the others.
So I am not part of the herd after all.
At least I am safe from the bull, very docile one, this one..

 

[finicky]

 

[eskys]

oopps, that makes me feel real bad thinking beef. Sometimes I wonder who is the lesser of the two (animals don't seem to have rights, no voice...kick them around as we wish, sad)

 

[finicky]

Totally @eskys

 

[eskys]

Am I allowed to say I like you better, @finicky? I like people who like animals.

 

[farmerge]

oopps, that makes me feel real bad thinking beef. Sometimes I wonder who is the lesser of the two (animals don't seem to have rights, no voice...kick them around as we wish, sad)

Treat them badly and suffer the consequences, unless they are like the bull that got me, which (past tense these days) was just a pure out and out evil animal.
No matter what in the animal world, humans included, there is always that tiny percentage no matter how they are treated, just pure evil.
My cows and calves are treated with respect and well fed thus they "love" me.

 

[wayneL]

Treat them badly and suffer the consequences, unless they are like the bull that got me, which (past tense these days) was just a pure out and out evil animal.
No matter what in the animal world, humans included, there is always that tiny percentage no matter how they are treated, just pure evil.
My cows and calves are treated with respect and well fed thus they "love" me.

Same with the nags. Stallions are incredibly fast and powerful and can take you out in the blink of an eye.

Fight or flight, plus pure aggression in a minority. Same with all animals (yes including hooomans).

What do we have? A bit of animal psychology, a bit of bluff, a bit of "cupboard love" and that's it.

Trigger the wrong responses and we're in trouble (notwithstanding those true rogues).

 

[farmerge]

Same with the nags. Stallions are incredibly fast and powerful and can take you out in the blink of an eye.

Fight or flight, plus pure aggression in a minority. Same with all animals (yes including hooomans).

What do we have? A bit of animal psychology, a bit of bluff, a bit of "cupboard love" and that's it.

Trigger the wrong responses and we're in trouble (notwithstanding those true rogues).

@wayneL My younger son is a big animal vet in the Southwest of WA.
He has been knocked out, severely hurt and injured and hospitalised by so called very calm and quite nags.
These days head is tied up on both sides and leg hobbles are in place.
He reckons if they want to kick they can try and perhaps break a leg or strangle themselves in the process.
Many lessons learnt of a 20 year time span.

 

[farmerge]

@finicky No way would I even trust any bovine with horns and its head down life that,
That to me is a charging position and gesture, particularly with a bull.
Just look at the neck and hump on its shoulders, that means just raw power which can be explosive.