Texas authorities are investigating the deaths of six cattle that were found with their tongues removed, no blood spilled and no signs of struggle.
The cattle were found along a Texas highway in Madison, Brazos, and Robertson County. Ranchers told the Madison County Sheriff’s Office that a six-year-old longhorn-cross cow had been found, lying on her side and mutilated.
I've been seeing these same sort of BS stories for 30+ years. As a lifetime beef producer, veterinarian with 40+ yrs experience, and an avid hunter... I can assure you it ain't space aliens or Satanic worshipers. The cows died - of what, we don't know - but those 'surgical excisions' of tongue/eye/cheek/anus/vulva/prepuce are the result of scavengers like buzzards, coyotes, 'possums, etc. No one inserted a tube into the animals' hearts and drained out all their blood. Move along... nothing to see here... Really.
Hey lucky: as a looong time beef producer, knife maker, hunter, AND part time gynocologist, I have lost a bull and had it mulitated within 100 yards of a home on my place. The vet, now deceased, verified the incisions were indeed of a small precision blade held at angles appropriate with angle of approach. Have approx 50 plus photos of the event. Cooincided with a war with the chopper boys out of Buckley which then morphed into the inspector general caused my ground to be declared a no fly zone for the chopper training for some 10 years. Nice you have such a high regard of your own staunch opinions....
Couldn't stand tongue when I was a kid, love me some lenqua tacos or burritos now. I really like roasting small pieces on a sliver of wood over coals, especially on a nice evening with friends.
Reminds me of Peter Straub's "Ghost Story".
ReplyDeleteI know this place that makes an excellent lengua torte and that's the first thing I thought of when I read this story.
ReplyDeleteI've been seeing these same sort of BS stories for 30+ years. As a lifetime beef producer, veterinarian with 40+ yrs experience, and an avid hunter... I can assure you it ain't space aliens or Satanic worshipers. The cows died - of what, we don't know - but those 'surgical excisions' of tongue/eye/cheek/anus/vulva/prepuce are the result of scavengers like buzzards, coyotes, 'possums, etc. No one inserted a tube into the animals' hearts and drained out all their blood. Move along... nothing to see here... Really.
ReplyDeleteHey lucky: as a looong time beef producer, knife maker, hunter, AND part time gynocologist, I have lost a bull and had it mulitated within 100 yards of a home on my place. The vet, now deceased, verified the incisions were indeed of a small precision blade held at angles appropriate with angle of approach.
DeleteHave approx 50 plus photos of the event. Cooincided with a war with the chopper boys out of Buckley which then morphed into the inspector general caused my ground to be declared a no fly zone for the chopper training for some 10 years. Nice you have such a high regard of your own staunch opinions....
Aliens. 100% certainty. But not the outer space kind.
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ReplyDeleteLengua is delicious. That said I suspect the lesbian community, not my peeps!
ReplyDeleteCouldn't stand tongue when I was a kid, love me some lenqua tacos or burritos now.
DeleteI really like roasting small pieces on a sliver of wood over coals, especially on a nice evening with friends.
I ate a lot of tongue when I was a kid. I liked it then, but it's been decades. Now, I'm thinking I want some more!
ReplyDeleteMy grandmother was a Dustbowler so we ate tongue, heart and liver. If I smell liver or heart cooking to this day, I retch.
ReplyDeleteI can eat calf heart but liver? I'll cut a bitch!
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