Get a Gerbil

[boondocks]

http://utica.craigslist.org/sha/5252389641.html

Or am I too harsh...Nah.

 

[pdfangus]

just another sign of an over effluent society with skewed values and no sense of nature and normalcy....

 

[greatgerts]

Someone could charge $500+ a month on this, and the owner of the cow would be absolutely fine with it.

 

[M.Magis]

Someone could charge $500+ a month on this, and the owner of the cow would be absolutely fine with it.

I wish they were closer...
Though I'm a little torn. On one hand, I'd feel guilty. On the other hand, people are doing the same thing with horses all over the country. Must be nice to have more money than sense.

 

[ga.prime]

Someone could charge $500+ a month on this, and the owner of the cow would be absolutely fine with it.

I wish they were closer...
Though I'm a little torn. On one hand, I'd feel guilty. On the other hand, people are doing the same thing with horses all over the country. Must be nice to have more money than sense.

I'd only feel guilty if someone else signed her cow up for deluxe accommodations before I did.

 

[pdfangus]

Someone could charge $500+ a month on this, and the owner of the cow would be absolutely fine with it.

I wish they were closer...
Though I'm a little torn. On one hand, I'd feel guilty. On the other hand, people are doing the same thing with horses all over the country. Must be nice to have more money than sense.

I'd only feel guilty if someone else signed her cow up for deluxe accommodations before I did.

now I feel guilty because my horses don't have deluxe accommodations.....

I had the horse vet out last week to do coggins test on my three and she had two little gal helpers....you could almost feel the three of them creeped out by my stable.....

 

[ga.prime]

pdf, I know what you mean. Young vet assistants are the worst. The ones here I think were recruited from the humane society. They won't even let you have a orphan cat unless you promise to keep it in your house.

 

[pdfangus]

pdf, I know what you mean. Young vet assistants are the worst. The ones here I think were recruited from the humane society. They won't even let you have a orphan cat unless you promise to keep it in your house.

I repeat...
just another sign of an over effluent society with skewed values and no sense of nature and normalcy....

 

[branguscowgirl]

http://utica.craigslist.org/sha/5252389641.html

Or am I too harsh...Nah.

I would board that cow for her in a heart beat! It doesn't bother me any by what they have for a pet as long as they pay the bill! :D
I know that I will get blasted, but I would rather see a cow for a pet than a snake! :mrgreen:

 

[pdfangus]

http://utica.craigslist.org/sha/5252389641.html

Or am I too harsh...Nah.

I would board that cow for her in a heart beat! It doesn't bother me any by what they have for a pet as long as they pay the bill! :D
I know that I will get blasted, but I would rather see a cow for a pet than a snake! :mrgreen:

I am with you all the way on this one.... :cowboy:

 

[boondocks]

I have the luxury of living where snakes don't tend to be venomous so I actually like the critters. When I was growing up, we often had them as pets!

I think my (virtual) eyerolling at the Craigslist ad was colored by a legal case going on nearby, where a farmer has had his livestock confiscated (and livelihoood taken) because people thought his beefers should be kept in a heated barn all winter. Also, during the horrible prolonged subzero stretch last winter, his water froze and he was going up to break the ice twice a day. The inspectors thought that wasn't good enough, even though his and their own vet inspected the animals and found them healthy--well-fed, no dehydration... My understanding is that he is still fighting to get his animals back, and to pay off legal fees and get his farm back up to full operation.

So it worries me a bit to see an idea taking hold in my neck of the woods that beef cows need a cozy barn in the winter, with a foot (hoof?) massage!

 

[branguscowgirl]

Ya I can understand boondocks. There are many people out there that do not know livestock, and how they live. (And prefer to live.) The authorities involved in the case that you are speaking of, sound like just such people! It is shear ignorance. Chances are the "boarder" would not be happy with what an average cattleman would provide for accommodations for their cow either.

 

[pdfangus]

yet the know nothings are quick to try to impose their will on those who have had stock all their lives and quick to try to bring in the law to get their way....I have a local dairy producer who can entertain for an afternoon telling stories of his adventures with the city folk who have moved to the country near his farm.....woman demanding he call the doctor for that poor cow having a calf....and actually calling the sheriffs office when he told her the cow was all right...Deputy called the vet to placate the woman, and vet told him that dairy farmer had delivered more calves than the vet had....

peta calls for alleged thin dairy cows....(normal looking and producing holsteins)

and manure hauling is always entertaining....all these people moved to the country and built or bought a house close up to a dairy farm...

 

[Rafter S]

yet the know nothings are quick to try to impose their will on those who have had stock all their lives and quick to try to bring in the law to get their way....I have a local dairy producer who can entertain for an afternoon telling stories of his adventures with the city folk who have moved to the country near his farm.....woman demanding he call the doctor for that poor cow having a calf....and actually calling the sheriffs office when he told her the cow was all right...Deputy called the vet to placate the woman, and vet told him that dairy farmer had delivered more calves than the vet had....

peta calls for alleged thin dairy cows....(normal looking and producing holsteins)

and manure hauling is always entertaining....all these people moved to the country and built or bought a house close up to a dairy farm...

 

[allisonr]

I came across some similar postings on a website called Petfinder.com. I was browsing for dogs once and saw they had a "livestock" category and knew I was in for a treat. Its full of people's barnyard pals in search of good loving homes where they can frolic in the fields for the rest of their days. Its mostly goats/sheep for some reason. The posters often include the animal's names, favorite things etc. and they all include some disclaimer about how the animals are not for sale for consumption. If you want a chuckle, check it out.

 

[allisonr]

I just checked and the section is called "barnyard"... even better.

 

[Workinonit Farm]

The sad thing is, a few years ago the state of Maine passed a law with regard to the welfare of livestock. There must be a building/barn to house the animals, whether they be cows, horses , sheep etc.

If I remember correctly, there was a similar case to the one that boondocks wrote about where a farmer lost his animals etc.

I'm sure there is a link out there somewhere with regard to the law in Maine, I'm just too tired to look for it now.

So......we may laugh, get annoyed etc but we should pay close attention because we are slowly becoming outnumbered as more and more generations of people become more and more distant from the farm.

 

[Luca Brasi]

The sad thing is, a few years ago the state of Maine passed a law with regard to the welfare of livestock. There must be a building/barn to house the animals, whether they be cows, horses , sheep etc.

If I remember correctly, there was a similar case to the one that boondocks wrote about where a farmer lost his animals etc.

I'm sure there is a link out there somewhere with regard to the law in Maine, I'm just too tired to look for it now.

So......we may laugh, get annoyed etc but we should pay close attention because we are slowly becoming outnumbered as more and more generations of people become more and more distant from the farm.

This is absolutely right. My Dept of Ag guys tell me that every year they get more and more calls because people see livestock outside in winter. Even sadder thing is they have to investigate every one, since they don't want the backlash for the one time in a thousand that they don't follow up and there actually happens to be a problem.

The citiots would be funny, if they weren't so scary.

 

[Muddy]

http://utica.craigslist.org/sha/5252389641.html

Or am I too harsh...Nah.

I would board that cow for her in a heart beat! It doesn't bother me any by what they have for a pet as long as they pay the bill! :D
I know that I will get blasted, but I would rather see a cow for a pet than a snake! :mrgreen:

the chances her "pet" cow might be a rotten spoiled brat horned Holstein that you don't want in your own prized herd.....at all.

 

[greatgerts]

I came across some similar postings on a website called Petfinder.com. I was browsing for dogs once and saw they had a "livestock" category and knew I was in for a treat. Its full of people's barnyard pals in search of good loving homes where they can frolic in the fields for the rest of their days. Its mostly goats/sheep for some reason. The posters often include the animal's names, favorite things etc. and they all include some disclaimer about how the animals are not for sale for consumption. If you want a chuckle, check it out.

Go to GoFundMe... Check out the animal section and type in "cow". You'll find where people HAVE DONATED over $1200 to someone wanting to buy a cow. Saw one where they had donated I believe, somewhere in the vicinity of $3000 for a house pet to have surgery.
If I didn't have morals, I'd set one up to buy a new tractor or piece of property.