Posted by JRT on November 18, 2007 at 08:55:26 from (72.71.84.187):
This is a rather long story but in the end I got the last laugh. I don't have cattle but we let a guy keep about 75 head on our place in the summer time to keep it from growing up. Last year he brought a crazy cow with the herd. We could not catch her when he came to get them. When pinned up she would jump a fence or go through it and if anyone tried to stop her she would try to kill them. Some of you have probably seen that look. Nose to the ground snorting and pawing dirt. Last year he left her and it took me 3 weeks to lure her into a 3 acre lot with feed at night and I would try to close the gate next morning. She kept a keen eye open when I tried to slip up and close the gate she headed for the mountains and I would not see her for 4 days. Finally I slipped in at night and closed the gate. He finally got her in a trailer promising to never bring her back again. Last spring after he brought cattle, I was taking my morning hike when I spot something up ahead snorting and pawing at me. When I got close enough, there she was, # 68 with even more of an attitude. My big dog decided to challange her and she put him under the fence. That day I saw the owner (Bobby)at the usual Lunch hang out. I said "Bobby, looks like you have brought me the "devil cow " again this year, did you forget? I also said, I cannot help but wonder why you would keep something like that around. He said, no I just loaded her by mistake, I didn't know she went on that load. He said she will have to stay the summer because he would never get her loaded by herself. Then he laughed and said, "anyway Jim, you are making too big of a deal out of that old cow. She is all bark and no bite. Besides that, All you have to do is pick up a big stick and run her off. She will not hurt you. He laughed and that got a chuckle out of the Lunch crowd. Well, yesterday I came home around 10:00 a.m. and I could see Bobby had come to gather up the cattle and take them home. Off in the distance in a 50 acre pasture I could see him flying around in his new Dodge truck, chasing a black cow. I got my binoculars out so I could get a better look at the show. I could see that that cow was clearly out manuvering him. He was lightly bumping her but she would get around to the side of the truck and lay into it with her head. One time she appeared to be going in the window after him and he was beating at her head with a wrench or something. Another time, I saw her gore a rear tail light. Finally he bumped it so hard it hit the ground and he and 2 other guys jumped out with a rope and had her tied before it could get back up. They left her tied while he went and got the trailer, backed it up, and rolled her in. When they got back to the barn she was up still pawing and butting the sides of the trailer He took the opportunity to assess the damages to his truck. There was two broken tail lights, a broken rain shield on the drivers side, a caved in fender, and a bent door. At todays prices, it appeard to me to be 1500 dollars worth of damage or even more. Bobby's comment was " There is more damage to my truck than that old SOB is worth". My only comment was, "Bobby, Why didn't you just pick up a big stick?". His work hands thought that was very funny but Bobby did not see one bit of humor there.
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