Cattle mutilations baffle Colorado ranchers

latimes.com ^ | December 14, 2009 | By DeeDee Correll

[BlueDragon]

Reporting from Denver - Manuel A. Sanchez has ruled out every logical explanation for the fate that has befallen the calves on his ranch in southern Colorado.

Over the past month, he's found four calves dead in a way that he cannot reconcile with anything in his 50 years of raising cattle: eyes and ears missing, tongues and genitals excised in what appeared to be a series of fine cuts.

[valkyry1]

I’m thinking its other animals on them.

[HerrBlucher]

Must be the aliens released from the failed Russian missle launch.

[WVNan]

I recall the same thing happening back in the 70s. Strange.

[Cyropaedia]

It’s the Chupacabras...

[pandoraou812]

Strange

[goseminoles]

Andrew Zimmern?

[heartwood]

Vultures? If the animals were dead or dying already. Black vultures will attack living newborn calves, but these were six moonths old or so, pretty big.

[BlueDragon]

see keywords...

[rdl6989]

George Noory please pick up the red courtesy phone. But seriesly, I’d say it’s cougars IMO.
http://wildlife.state.co.us/Research/Mammal/CougarPumaMountainLion/

[SIDENET]

see keywords...

My favorite is "cowabunga".

[mountn man]

Over the past month, he's found four calves dead in a way that he cannot reconcile with anything in his 50 years of raising cattle: eyes and ears missing, tongues and genitals excised in what appeared to be a series of fine cuts.

But seriesly, I’d say it’s cougars IMO.

But seriesly, I’d say no, IMO.

[BlueDragon]

Well, uh, I was under the impression he likes to leave the gathering and cooking, to others...

Sounds like good work --- if you can get it! 8^-)

He-ee-eeres Andrew

[pissant]

Any Chinese restaurants open in the neighborhood recently?

[dila813]

I always thought it was rats eating on the carcass.

I heard one report though that they were alive but it was one of the alien theory pushers saying it.

[BlueDragon]

Somebody posted a link to this site the other day;

cowabduction.com

with the hint, make sure one 'scrolls over' the grazing cow on the home page...

I particularly enjoy the "evidence' photos showing nothing but cowbells remaining. Reminds me of those old joker stories always involving a fence, or a piece of string, etc.,
At the end of the story, the teller would say, "and if you don't believe that, then here's the string" or "right there is the fence", while pointing at it.

[Bon mots]

>>> Ping <<<

[rdl6989]

What else could it be?

[mountn man]

I don't know. But a cat isn't going to just eat a tongue. Or just eyes. Or cut offf genitalia. A cats claws are sharp, but would never be described as making fine cuts. They slash and rip.

Ranchers are familiar with cat attacks, and one would be pretty obvious. This has got ranchers puzzled, so I'd say not a cat.

[BlueDragon]

I always thought it was rats eating on the carcass.

Nah, 'rats have welfare, or goobermint jobs, or live in mom's basement, or are tenured academics...

wait, you meant rat rats. Oh, now I get it! Sorry, got mixed up there for a sec... Well maybe. But if the cuts are straight and precise, man I don't know. 'Rats most likely wouldn't be so neat about it, and rat rats wouldn't either.

Weird, man. Weird.