Psychos Walk Among US
wet of backs?
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THE COUNTRY™—The buzzards led a rancher to his prized calf. He found the body just over a rise in the field, with a bullet hole in its left shoulder, near the heart.
He had heard of animals killed by rustlers for their meat. But not until that May morning had he ever imagined anything so senseless as shooting cattle presumably just to watch them die.
“I had a hollow feeling in my gut, to see that dead calf laying there, with the mother cow bellowing nearby,” said the rancher. “I thought, what the hell’s going on in this place?”
Authorities are searching for a drive-by shooter who guns down cows as they calmly munch grass in the rolling pastureland. Since February, five cows have been found dead in two counties, shot with small-caliber bullets designed to inflict prolonged pain and suffering.
[Other] police are investigating the May killing of 15 goats, each shot in the face as they huddled in a portable pen. Officers said residents had called in to report the sound of “babies crying.” ...
Nationwide, an increasing number of animal cruelty cases are being reported outside city limits: Horses, cows, goats and other farm animals are being killed, authorities say, often by angry, reckless youths, perhaps acting on dares.
Bullshiite. It’s the Psychos from South of the Border.
But lookie here who they’re trying to hang it on:
"Rural kids grow up with guns. They shoot squirrels and coyotes as predator control, so the idea of shooting a rifle from a vehicle is not abnormal,” said attorney [Dan G. Nuisance]. “Still, I just cannot fathom the transition it takes to start shooting livestock."
More horseshiite:
"Most places, you’ve got to go a long way to be considered cruel to livestock,” said an attorney for the Texas Humane Legislation Network, a nonprofit group that promotes animal protection laws. “The industry is paranoid that somehow what they do in their routine animal husbandry could be called cruelty. We’re working to give these animals some protection."
“paraniod” This from ‘people’ who think cows need shoes. And diapers.
[Humane Officer on the case] isn’t giving up. One afternoon, she leaned out of her patrol truck and offered her card to two girls and a boy who were feeding cattle at their family’s ranch. She drove away, observing the teens in her rearview mirror.
“The kids killing these animals are out here somewhere,” she said. “I hope we find them soon. They really need help."
Those were not the culprits, ya ninnyhammer.
And they don’t need “help.” They need a little lead in their pants. Rinse. Repeat.
I have 5 calves fresh on the ground this week with another 15 to come in the next coupla weeks. And a case of the nerves.
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