A horse of a different color...

[Berek]

They should just build a wall around the city and require everyone to pass a competency test to go out into the countryside

It's not just NYC. I get 'em in from Buffalo. I was dating a girl and, on our way to Attica to visit her sister, her step-sister (who lives in Buffalo) looked out into a field of sheep and said "Look at all the cows!"

Most of them were at the fence-line not 10' from the road. Those were the fuzziest cows I've ever seen. Not even that Welsh thing that looks like a steroid-fed Sheepdog was this fuzzy. You know, where you can barely make out the nose through the wool...

Well, sufficive to say, she was laughed at for the rest of the ride.

I won't even get into some of the city students I've had in my classes.

Berek

 

[Brian Dale]

{not completely off topic, I think}:

many farmers paint "COW" on the side of their cows each year

Many years ago, a graduate school friend told me that a rancher where he was from in Arizona had done just that to his grazing cattle after he'd had several shot.

He put "C O W" on both sides of each one, in full-body-height letters of fluorescent orange spray paint.

One day when he checked his herd, he found that one of them had been shot right through the middle of the "O."

Some folks are just mean.

 

[akodo]

I once knew an old timer who had spent 18 years in Fish & Game here in Montana. He told a story of an out of state hunter showing off his kill at a game check station. He was really proud of the moose he had killed until it was pointed out to him that moose don't wear iron shoes.

I would really like to know how a guy got a dead horse halled back and put in his pickup so he would be able to drive it down to the gamecheck station.


I grew up on a farm and there was plenty of hunting, but never heard of any real incident of livestock being mistake for game.

 

[Berek]

I would really like to know how a guy got a dead horse halled back and put in his pickup so he would be able to drive it down to the gamecheck station.

I grew up on a farm and there was plenty of hunting, but never heard of any real incident of livestock being mistake for game.

Go back to the beginning of the thread and check the link "Remember the Donkey?"

Berek

 

[shooting time]

Many years ago in NY state the DNR locked up some Puerto Ricans from Brooklyn on their way home from hunting upstate ny with a goat strapped to the fender of their car when they stopped at a deer check station. I also remember seeing cows with COW painted on their sides in a farm in downsville NY.