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<blockquote data-quote="CUZ" data-source="post: 456500" data-attributes="member: 4301"><p>I think I may have a solution for all of us.</p><p></p><p>You know how on TV they tell the kids they're going to send Mr Buttons to a nice upstate farm family to live with when they're really having the animal put down. So here's how this works.</p><p></p><p>I send Strawberry (18 years old and lost last two calves) to live out her last years on your farm and you send me ??? (your "special" cow). Then after 6 or 10 months we send each other a nice letter saying what a pretty day it was and how _______ (insert name of cow) just went to sleep one night and never woke up. That way neither of us has to watch our "special one" suffer and we certainly don't have to make that hard decision to send them off with a .38 salute.</p><p></p><p>Even with delivery costs, we'd both save money. I see it as a win-win as long as we could live with lying to ourselves, but then again that might be easier than the anguish we go through over one in its last day or two. </p><p></p><p>When I was a teenager my Papa had a mule that he felt strongly about. The mule had cancer in it's jaw and spent the last day walking up and down the creek. That day on our way back from the store Dad finally talked Papa into putting the mule down instead of letting it suffer. When we got back to the house the mule was dead so Dad and I drug him off to a ditch. Papa felt bad that he couldn't do any better for the mule than he did. </p><p></p><p>It's part of it, but it's the suck-y part.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CUZ, post: 456500, member: 4301"] I think I may have a solution for all of us. You know how on TV they tell the kids they're going to send Mr Buttons to a nice upstate farm family to live with when they're really having the animal put down. So here's how this works. I send Strawberry (18 years old and lost last two calves) to live out her last years on your farm and you send me ??? (your "special" cow). Then after 6 or 10 months we send each other a nice letter saying what a pretty day it was and how _______ (insert name of cow) just went to sleep one night and never woke up. That way neither of us has to watch our "special one" suffer and we certainly don't have to make that hard decision to send them off with a .38 salute. Even with delivery costs, we'd both save money. I see it as a win-win as long as we could live with lying to ourselves, but then again that might be easier than the anguish we go through over one in its last day or two. When I was a teenager my Papa had a mule that he felt strongly about. The mule had cancer in it's jaw and spent the last day walking up and down the creek. That day on our way back from the store Dad finally talked Papa into putting the mule down instead of letting it suffer. When we got back to the house the mule was dead so Dad and I drug him off to a ditch. Papa felt bad that he couldn't do any better for the mule than he did. It's part of it, but it's the suck-y part. [/QUOTE]
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