I’m thinking its other animals on them.
Must be the aliens released from the failed Russian missle launch.
I recall the same thing happening back in the 70s. Strange.
Andrew Zimmern?
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/
Any Chinese restaurants open in the neighborhood recently?
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.
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I’ve seen a lot of cattle carcasses that have been worked over by scavengers. Don’t really know that I ever lost any due to predators. Coyotes and vultures usually post-death. The type of cuts he’s describing don’t sound at all like scavengers. They’re always very messy, a lot of ripping and tearing.
I have no idea what it could be
Bush’s fault.
The stories of strangely mutilated cattle are developed and disseminated during each severe economic recession. ...more publications about UFOs during such times, too.
When certain individuals with more power than they should have become afraid, they smother certain truths with lots of lies (wilder conspiracy stories). That tactic tends to have the effect of making those truths untouchable. Well, it has in the past.
Become more self-sufficient, and don’t buy anything that you don’t need. Show disgust and contempt toward corrupt politics. Become anti-political in general, until you see some honest, pro-American candidates with voting records in favor of pro-American trade.
Maybe they are under a new health care program.
Wolves excise the the genitals and eat the other soft parts of cattle, BTW. The parts of stories about surgical cuts and the like are probably embellishments for the distraction propaganda used during depressions.
It’s aliens.
The mutilations never really stopped, and the number that occurred during the 70’s, just in Colorado, is mind boggling. The carcasses have often been excised, having pinking shear looking cuts, and all blood gone from the body. In snow, mud, dirt, no tracks, either human or predator are found. They don’t decay or decompose normally, and scavengers avoid the bodies.
During the height of the problem, ranchers stopped even reporting them to the authorities, because nothing came of it. Most blamed predators. A lot of ranchers just took to burying them quickly and going about their own business. Despite law conferences involving officers from multiple states, rewards offered, watches, and armed farmers and ranchers staking out their own livestock, no one has ever been brought to justice over it.
In some cases, the animals show leg fractures, like they’d been dropped from height. Tests on some show that sharp implements have been used, or during laboratory testing, that the cauterized looking edges of the wounds showed cooked hemoglobin. At the time when such wounds started to appear, any laser capable of creating them, would have been huge, and certainly not portable.
Some cattle were found to be marked with a fluorescing paint or marker of some kind, that only showed up under certain light. A few had a gel like substance on them that had a strange smell, irritated the skin, and quickly evaporated.
Captain Keith Wolverton of the Cascade County Sheriff’s Department, was just one of the people who thoroughly investigated the reports, expecting to find a rational answer or culprit, but after 30 years, still has no answers.
Whether you buy into Linda Moulton Howe’s theories or not, she did some outstanding stuff on it. Christopher O’Brien collected stories of all kinds of odd happenings in the San Luis Valley, investigated them, and wrote a few books on all the weird goings on there, including the history of cattle mutilations.
Another read that’ll curl your toenails, is Hunt for the Skinwalker, by Colm Kelleher. The stuff that Bigelow and NIDS encountered while investigating that ranch in Utah, will give you the creeping jeebies. There’s pics floating around of the calf that was mutilated there, and it’s bones and hide. Within minutes, within sight of the people not 300 yards away, something butchered and took most of the flesh from a calf, leaving no blood, no organs and nothing but mostly hide and bones splayed out in the yard.
I don’t know what the hell is doing it, or who, but if you really start to read all the stuff related to it, the investigations, eyewitness and rancher accounts, it’s really weird stuff.
It looks like it’s a cook who is not getting what he needs at the butcher. Eyeballs and ears—mmm! mmm! mmm!
I thought this mutilation businesses had all been put to sleep when they discovered it was due to flies and their tiny mouths taking tiny bites, hence the “fine cuts.”
Readers may wish to know that the mysterious cattle mutilations have occurred in other parts of the world, in particular South America.
A couple of years ago while reading the online edition of the Argentine newspaper La Voz Del Interior, I stumbled upon a series of stories on a large number of cow mutilations that occurred in mid 2002 in several parts of the country, some 6000 miles from the US, and have continued to occur since then. The stories are eerily similar to those published in American newspapers in the 1990s and summarized in the latest report.
One wonders how it’s possible for ranchers who live on two different hemispheres to experience such nearly identical incidents. I have seen the photos and read the accounts of mutilated cattle in both countries and am virtually certain that one could swap carcasses from both continents and no one would notice the difference.
The stories in La Voz run something like this:
1. Argentine ranchers in mid 2002 by the hundreds report finding strangely mutilated cow carcasses on their properties.
2. They report that the mutilations are unusual in that they appear to have been made with surgical precision. The ranchers had found dead cattle before but those bore the unmistakable signs of a predator attack.
3. Most often the tongue, one or two eyes, the udders, and the genitals have been cleanly removed while the remainder of the animal remains essentially untouched. Blood stains are absent from the site and no tracks can be found nearby and the cuts appear to have been made while the animal was still alive as reported by laboratories in both countries.
4. They occasionally report the presence of bright lights during the night preceding the discovery but no sounds.
5. The authorities, in this case the Argentine department of agriculture (SENSA), carry out a reportedly thorough investigation and state unequivocally that the apparent mutilations are the work of predators, in this case the red nosed mouse.
6. The ranchers express serious doubts about the government’s explanation and are joined in their misgivings by some Argentine academic experts and veterinarians but the government holds fast to its findings.
7. Rumors abound that the mutilations are of extraterrestrial origin.
8. After a month or two, the mutilation stories fade from the news media but reappear periodically over the years as scattered mutilations reoccur.
The predator theory put forth by the authorities both in the US and Argentina are too simple to explain how such widely spaced locations can undergo such similar incidents, why they occur sporadically with periods of low activity in between lasting for from months to years, how it’s possible for completely different predators – allegedly the coyote in New Mexico/Colorado and the red nosed mouse in Argentina – to produce nearly identical disfigurements, and how it’s possible for the cuts to be made while the animal is still alive.
Anyone who would like to follow up can type “vacas mutiladas” into their favorite search engine. A fairly thorough knowledge of Spanish will be necessary although some search engines do offer crude English translations.