I expected Gators to be on the list. Alligators have killed people in Florida, I have seen the stories. But I guess the numbers are low. Other coastal cities in the south as well.. but again, I guess the numbers are low there as well. I was surprised at the number of states where Dogs and Cows are listed as number one. However, Tina bought two Dexter Female cows when we first got to Oklahoma that the gal told her were gentle and sweet and could be milked. Those gals were insane... we had them nearly six months, and Tina is GOOD with animals of all kinds, twice they went bat (um) crap crazy and nearly injured her. Only experience kept her from getting hurt. She traded
both, and one was due very shortly... for one milk cow.
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You'll note that not only were they crazy gals, they were heavily armed. Bad combination.
The best she could do in the time she had them was get ONE to let her rub her head WHILE she ate from the bucket of grain... when the bucket of grain was empty, no more petting. Couldn't touch the other.
Woman drove up from Texas to get them. She knew in advance that the gals were psycho. Tina told her to:
1. Call before she came and she would get them into the stall, but let her know when so they weren't locked up long. (Because they are nutz, no need to agitate them.
2. Bring help to load, they are nutz.
3. Plan to release them into a round pen or stall for a few days, when the gal delivered them, they ran OUR fence line and escaped by wading into the creek and going UNDER the fence in the water. Took ten days to lure them back into the pasture from the woods next door.
Lady calls and says she will arrive at the farm by 10am. Tina calls the gals UP at 8am to feed and dumps their feed in the feeding buckets in the stall and when they go in, she closes the gate behind them. No biggie, usually the vet comes and looks over the gate and then they are turned out. Nope.
Lady shows up at 5pm. "I got busy." Tina looks in the truck... she is alone. "Where is your help?"
"Oh, I figured WE could load them."
So, we have her back her trailer up to the stall and open both doors, use extra panels we had on hand to create a funnel, so when we open the stall doors there is nowhere to go but into the trailer. Tina asks if the lady is ready, she says Yup. I open the gate and tie it to the back of the trailer.
One of the crazy cows runs to the front of the trailer and Tina yells at the gal to close the center gate in the trailer... She hadn't pulled the pins and the gate was locked open. Before the gal can free the pin and close the center divider, the cow runs back out and won't go in the trailer again. Sis says she won't either.
Tina is NOT a happy camper. I go in the adjacent stall in the barn. The cows don't like men. They both run into the trailer and Tina closes the back doors on the trailer. She reminds the gal that she needs to quarantine the cows to let them adjust to the farm, and then can turn them out after two or three days, perhaps a week. She reminds her what they did here when the seller released them. No problem. She leaves.
Get a call a couple weeks later. The gal had driven back to Texas and left them locked in the trailer til noon the next day, then just let them out because hubby wasn't there to help set up a round pen. Cows ran out, thru the fence onto the neighbors 400 acres and hadn't been seen except by the neighbor. He called that morning and said either come get your cows off my farm or I'm putting them in the freezer. They are terrorizing his cattle. She wants Tina and I to drive to Texas and catch the cows. Um, you didn't do anything you were told, starting with showing up HOURS late. Sorry, not my problem.
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