Thanks for the info. I’ve seen those masks before. I vaguely recalled cataracts being a problem for elder horses, and so I thought they were blindfolds or sunglasses of some sort to protect their eyes from long-term UV exposure. I suppose the flies are a more immediate threat…
I have a gay cat. Every time I turn around, he’s coming out of the closet.
Some models of fly masks have UV protection, too.
You forgot to duck and run. 
What a worthless piece of crap - hope he dies from something as painful as what your dog died from.
He poisoned on purpose or because dogs don’t know what little white flags on the lawn mean?
Ponies can eat bacon? Sorry for the hijack, but can horses digest meat? How about cows?
This is an appropriate time to bring up The Society for Indecency to Naked Animals:
http://artruch.wordpress.com/2007/11/14/the-society-for-indecency-to-naked-animals/
http://www.thecourse.us/Students/Society_for_Indecency_to_Naked_Animals.htm
(And I agree that the title is obviously messed up, but that’s what they called it. Probably deliberately.)
Most ponies don’t eat bacon! I’m not sure if they can digest it or not, only that one strip of bacon is not going to upset the balance too much. This is usually one of those quirks you only see once or twice! Like my friends horse that liked Egg McMuffins… (mine liked french fries and ginger snaps, but those are made of plants).
When I taught riding on the edge of a fairly upper-middle class suburb, you couldn’t count the number of parents who dropped their kids off with the admonition: “don’t get dirty!” WTF? How are you going to not get dirty at the BARN?? (and BTW, this was not some flash show barn, just a neighborhood place). One mom would require her daughter to hose off her boots, then mom would literally wipe them off with baby wipes before daughter was allowed back in the Lexus.
This was not a problem when I taught riding in a more rural area. They had some idea that handling livestock is a dirty job on the best of days, I guess.
Hey now as far as I know all goats in the story were of age.
I believed that goats and sheep were the same species (the sheep were the girls and the goats were the boys) for an embarrassingly long time. Your goats may be providing necessary educational services for children who are under the same assumption. Goats fucking is a good thing!
Sheep are simply the “Larval” stage of goats, all goats start out as sheep, then they grow a wooly cocoon and enter the “Pupa” stage, eventually shedding the wooly cocoon and emerging as goats…
Just like all ponies “grow up” to be horses. Even the ones that haven’t gained an inch in 30 years.
If all goats are boys and you saw two goats going at it, would you be surprised at the goats coming out of the closet?
Horses can be pretty indiscriminate about what they eat. There’s a video out there of a guy who trained a pony to sit in his convertible while he (the guy) drives. At one point, they head to the local burger joint where everyone gets (and consumes) a burger, including the pony.
I don’t know if a cow would eat meat if you just put it in her feed bucket, but weren’t the remains of cattle carcasses routinely recycled into cattle feed in the days prior to Mad Cow Disease?
I like this one - she could go on the offensive, and report this person to the police and/or the town hall meeting.
“I’m being harassed by a pervert who watches my goats all day, and then calls me with disgusting details about them having sex!”
There was an outbreak of trichinosis in Italy some years back that was traced to contaminated horsemeat. The only way to get trichinosis is to eat the flesh of an animal carrying in its muscles the microscopic worm that causes the disease. (Usually this is pork, only because pigs are uniquely tolerant of trichinella worms and can carry a load without appearing sick.) Therefore, the horse had to have chowed down on at least a small quantity of meat at some time.
This happened to a friend of mine last week. A neighbor came to his door to complain that their dogs–a husky and a Samoyed–were being left out in the cold.
The kicker is that this is Houston. When people here talk about “cold” they mean lows in the 30’s and highs in the 50’s. The coldest it got that entire week was 27. Those dogs were probably the most comfortable they have been all year.
He has this [well known to animal control who has been dealing with the asshole for years] of putting down inadequate poison levels, so the moles/voles/whatever poor rodent he is after gets dosed, and wanders around convusling until some animal it twitches near eats it because it is exhibiting injured prey actions. My dog, happily enclosed in my yard which is adjoining this jackasses yard ate a twitchy critter, which I found out when she came back in the doggie door, and promptly went into convulsions in my living room. One fast visit and several hundred dollars, a necropsy and a box of ashes later, I contact animal control to be told that there is no law that mandates you have to poison rodents until they drop dead instantly and this jackwad has bagged over a dozen dogs and 3 cats known with unknown numbers of ferals. None of the neighbors within our group of 7 I have spoken with have ever poisoned rodents [going by the distance animal control says is a normal rodents range] we all use kill traps as we are all pet owners. This fuckwad has no pets, and does not therefore care to make sure that the rodents are instantly dead.
You absolutely kill me sometimes.
aruvqan, that’s horrible! Geez…I’ve never been annoyed enough at pests to almost guarantee poisoning local pets…