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I wish :D church and chores..
 

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I was close. :cool:

I watched a some old corny comedy from mid evil times... I guess it stuck. I just made what could very possibly be the most stupidly written thread known to TFO.
 

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Come on! Where is everyone? I've got another wandering cattle adventure to share. This time with 10 cows. I've earned my hat and my name tonight.

Fine. No one asked, but I'll tell ya'all anyway. We had a family dinner with the inlaws and BIL&SIL's last night. Great time. Got home and an hour or so later, Karen and I head out to smoke on the porch. Of course, Ava has to come along to protect us, hahaha. She bolts off the porch barking, and I hear large animals walking in the dark on the gravel parking area. My first thought was the horses were loose. We had good winds last night, and maybe a snow/ice weak branch came down.
I grab a flashlight, not the horses, 3 of our neighbors cows are out there. I head off to get behind them, and walk into 7 more deeper on the property. Mind you, these folks don't believe in dehorning their cattle, so both bulls and cows have horns! I start yelling at them and shoeing them towards the road and the open gate, but Ava wants to head them off and keep playing. It was a bit of fun. Didn't take too long, no one got hurt, and looking at landscape damage this am it doesn't look too bad.


Loving the quite country life!!!!
 

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tortoisetime565 said:
Yvonne G said:
I'm having babies!!!!!!!

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Yvonne that is such great news!!! Congrats! I want one!!! xD

They are so cute :)


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Cowboy_Ken said:
Come on! Where is everyone? I've got another wandering cattle adventure to share. This time with 10 cows. I've earned my hat and my name tonight.

Fine. No one asked, but I'll tell ya'all anyway. We had a family dinner with the inlaws and BIL&SIL's last night. Great time. Got home and an hour or so later, Karen and I head out to smoke on the porch. Of course, Ava has to come along to protect us, hahaha. She bolts off the porch barking, and I hear large animals walking in the dark on the gravel parking area. My first thought was the horses were loose. We had good winds last night, and maybe a snow/ice weak branch came down.
I grab a flashlight, not the horses, 3 of our neighbors cows are out there. I head off to get behind them, and walk into 7 more deeper on the property. Mind you, these folks don't believe in dehorning their cattle, so both bulls and cows have horns! I start yelling at them and shoeing them towards the road and the open gate, but Ava wants to head them off and keep playing. It was a bit of fun. Didn't take too long, no one got hurt, and looking at landscape damage this am it doesn't look too bad.


Loving the quite country life!!!!



Wait how do they do property damage? Grass eating. :p;)
 

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Least you could have done was send them down your neighbor's driveway so they could ruin HIS landscaping!
 

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They destroy your landscaping that your wife lovingly cares for. Yvonne, I got in my truck and escorted them up to their place. They went off a spur road, so headed up to the house. I told the husband where they went, and he said, “guess I should close that gate." I was like, REALLY, ya think? Then he looked at how he was dressed(sweats) and started to sigh so pointed out that I was dressed the same but they weren't my cows. Turned, got in my truck and headed home.
 

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Hence why I will never own cattle.

I have sulcatas though, which are very similar.

I finally got to wear my new t-shirt I got at the Pomona show! Its a tortoise face. 1392583608081.jpg
I got a few odd looks, but its totally worth it.
 
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Kerryann said:
Thanks, he is really a beautiful guy. Is it wrong for a male to have such a fabulous skirt? :D
Absolutely not, some of the greatest guys I know have fabulous skirts. ;)
 

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Yvonne am I seeing a special tortoise there??? The baby on the right?


Kerryann said:
Jacqui said:
bouaboua said:
Henry is so beautiful.

:tort:

I agree! I love the markings on his skirting, now I want one, too. :D

Thanks, he is really a beautiful guy. Is it wrong for a male to have such a fabulous skirt? :D

In his case, how about we call it a kilt? :D

Boy this thread is soooooo slow, much slower then Chat 2 was for me... maybe I should close this one and we can go back to the old thread....
 

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Think of all that weight - over a ton of animal - with the weight concentrated down into one little hoof, about 5" around, and pressing a ton on 5" down into the ground as it walks, especially wet ground like they have in the Frozen North. One cow walking through the landscaping can ruin it, but imagine what several will do.

I'll have to go back and take another look at the babies to see if one has your name on it, Jacqui.
 

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Jacqui, at least this one shows our posts when we post them!


Maybe I should bring up an old topic.

The little rescue baby ate some mazuri today. The bigger guys are growing at a scary pace. One day I'm going to come down stairs and see a 100grams pound tortoise walking around.
 

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Yvonne G said:
Think of all that weight - over a ton of animal - with the weight concentrated down into one little hoof, about 5" around, and pressing a ton on 5" down into the ground as it walks, especially wet ground like they have in the Frozen North. One cow walking through the landscaping can ruin it, but imagine what several will do.

I'll have to go back and take another look at the babies to see if one has your name on it, Jacqui.

Well it may just be how these old eyes are seeing what they want to see, too. :D

I can't recall if it was a year or two ago, we had a herd of cattle get out from a neighbor's and get into where I had planted all my cactus. By the time they could get them rounded up and out of there, they had demolished the cactus with none surviving. :( So yeah, cattle can really do a number.


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The little rescue baby ate some mazuri today.

!!!!!! That is great news. Every little bite helps.:)
 

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The best was Ava wanting to head them off saying, “Dad, we aren't herders, we're Carnivores! Bring one of these suckers down and we'll eat well for a year!" She ended up having to stay on the porch as a cheerleader with Karen.
 
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