[QUOTE=Larus marinus;2593633]Does the cock still rise to an erect state after hitting it on the head with a rock?[/QUOTE]
Interestingly, the chicken (wasn’t a cock) I shot in the neck with the BB gun did a series of backflips before croaking. Probably 5 to 10 perfect back flips. I shit you not.
[QUOTE=devil;2593636]Interestingly, the chicken (wasn’t a cock) I shot in the neck with the BB gun did a series of backflips before croaking. Probably 5 to 10 perfect back flips. I shit you not.[/QUOTE]
Did you ever choke your chicken?
[QUOTE=Larus marinus;2593638]Did you ever choke your chicken?[/QUOTE]
What color panties are you wearing?
[QUOTE=devil;2593640]What color panties are you wearing?[/QUOTE]
They were white at one time.
A few years ago, we started getting a pigeon problem in town. Apparently, some dumbfuck was raising and breeding them for racing, quit and released them all. I know this because I had a flock of 6 of them start landing on my roof which I promptly began shooting with my pellet gun and saw the banded tag around on of the carcass ankles.
I’ll weed the flock down to about 1 or 2, they will leave for a couple of months, pick up new winged rats and then return. The other day, I heard the last 2 remaining scumbags on my roof, I grabbed the ol’ pellet gun and went outside.
I cranked that fucker up about 15 times and nailed that shitbird and broke its wing. It flopped off the roof and landed hopping and hobbling around. I reloaded and began cranking and the ghettobird flopped off my front yard and into the road. I figured a car would take it out.
Here in the great American Southwest, there is a phenomenon whereby people will leave their garage doors cracked about a foot or two to vent out heat. I refer to this as “rattler-doors”, but I digress. The pigeon limped and hopped up my neighbor’s driveway and under his door, thereby denying me of my shot.
I ran into him the other day and he asked if I had a problem with a neighborhood cat dragging dead pigeons into my garage…(Sociociders will get an extra LOL from this).
It’s funny how we triage animals into eatable/ not eatable
I eat cows but not horses. Whats the differance?
I eat pigs but not dogs, and I may feed my dog pig
Personally I would not eat rat unless I was extremly hungry, but I have no problem at all eating squirell
Worst of all is the ‘Animal Lover’, who ignores the diabolical treatment of animals in factory farms and meat factories, whilst fawning over some pet poodle.
If you can’t kill it, don’t eat it!
I was just thinking about this as I was reading Snake’s last post, actually.
Shooting/getting rid of feral pigeons, not many people are really going to have a problem with. Yet if he’d been caught shooting feral parrots (say if he had them round his way), he’d probably get into the local paper as a major local dirtbag and asshole.
Does it all come down to charisma? Or perceived closeness to humanity? Perhaps it does.
Also, as a former pet owner, I think that it’s very easy to anthropomorphize the species that you personally have affection for. Never had a dog, never had a cat, ridden a horse before but never owned one - and TBH, if I hear about people eating them, my reaction is ‘So what? That’s what they do over there - how’s it any different to us eating cow, sheep, pig and chicken?’. Hypothetically speaking, if some culture somewhere was eating cockatoos, then I suppose that I’d find that rather offensive.
@Cowboy- does he like beer? My horse is kind of ambivalent about beer, heh. Back at a ghetto barn I had my boy at, we had this chick who worked at the racetrack for years, and she always shared her beer with her horse. He loved it. She gave me a beet and I tried sharing it with Sol, but he didn’t get too enthusiastic about it really.
@Devil- No that’s… that’s okay. You keep your gentle ways far from here.
@ uh, I forget, whoever asked it he was a Lipizzaner, hightly doubtful. Those horses are extremely expensive and pretty well-guarded. He’s got a really pretty head, yeah, but I don’t think that’s what he is. It’s more likely that he is an appendix (Thoroughbred-QuarterHorse mix) or an Anglo-arab (Thoroughbred-Arabian mix.) No one really knows though. I can’t afford the DNA testing to see what he’s got in him, and I was only able to trace his ownership back about 8 years.
@whoever asked about locking him up for the night- nope, no barn. He lives on 95 acres of pasture deep in the country.
And I took down the video, because ew.
As for eating animals, well, I kind of see it like this. Has the animal been raised to trust you and see you as a companion? Then it’s quite a betrayal of that trust to slaughter and eat the animal. Personally, I’m not happy with horses being eaten because I know too much about them and what they are like, but it isn’t as bad if they are feral. Horses that were raised as pets or working partners and who came to trust humans, those horses should not, in my opinion, get shipped off to slaughter just because they aren’t fun any more. They earned their retirement.
Like my old man… he was tortured for years, but he stull trusts people. He earned a happy life.
My horse, Solo does indeed enjoy beer. It is after all just grain in its proper form.
Highly NSFW, but, ahem, makes me snicker.
[QUOTE=Hiro Protagonist;2593703]Highly NSFW, but, ahem, makes me snicker.
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The metal version is my ringtone.
Mwahahaha! 
[QUOTE=Evergrey;2593669]@Cowboy- does he like beer? My horse is kind of ambivalent about beer, heh. Back at a ghetto barn I had my boy at, we had this chick who worked at the racetrack for years, and she always shared her beer with her horse. He loved it. She gave me a beet and I tried sharing it with Sol, but he didn’t get too enthusiastic about it really.
@Devil- No that’s… that’s okay. You keep your gentle ways far from here.
@ uh, I forget, whoever asked it he was a Lipizzaner, hightly doubtful. Those horses are extremely expensive and pretty well-guarded. He’s got a really pretty head, yeah, but I don’t think that’s what he is. It’s more likely that he is an appendix (Thoroughbred-QuarterHorse mix) or an Anglo-arab (Thoroughbred-Arabian mix.) No one really knows though. I can’t afford the DNA testing to see what he’s got in him, and I was only able to trace his ownership back about 8 years.
@whoever asked about locking him up for the night- nope, no barn. He lives on 95 acres of pasture deep in the country.
And I took down the video, because ew.
As for eating animals, well, I kind of see it like this. Has the animal been raised to trust you and see you as a companion? Then it’s quite a betrayal of that trust to slaughter and eat the animal. Personally, I’m not happy with horses being eaten because I know too much about them and what they are like, but it isn’t as bad if they are feral. Horses that were raised as pets or working partners and who came to trust humans, those horses should not, in my opinion, get shipped off to slaughter just because they aren’t fun any more. They earned their retirement.
Like my old man… he was tortured for years, but he stull trusts people. He earned a happy life.
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Besides, most horses have so different medications that make them unsuitable for human consumption, various wormers, antibiotics, etc.
I raise goats and sheep, and we treat them very kindly, but in the end, excess animals (non breeding) go into the freezer. We keep one goat for milking, and she will get to retire next year as she has earned a nice life, and we have a couple of doeling candidates for milkers now.
[QUOTE=Evergrey;2593669]
…whoever asked it he was a Lipizzaner, hightly doubtful. Those horses are extremely expensive and pretty well-guarded. He’s got a really pretty head, yeah, but I don’t think that’s what he is. It’s more likely that he is an appendix (Thoroughbred-QuarterHorse mix) or an Anglo-arab (Thoroughbred-Arabian mix.) No one really knows though. I can’t afford the DNA testing to see what he’s got in him, and I was only able to trace his ownership back about 8 years.
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Imagine if those crackheads had a Lipizzaner and starved it to death… If I was there and it happened I would have hung them by the testicles.
I couldn’t really make out the breed since I only had the nack-and-head photo to work on, but still, Anglo-Arabs are nice too. I worked with a couple on show jumping, and they’re really timid and good hearted in general. In my experience, they are not as “hot headed” as the other hot/warmblood breeds.
This horse survived being beaten and tortured by those Charro fuckers. They used him for tripping- he used to be really fast, you see. So they’d chase him at a dead run and lasso his legs to bring him crashing down. This was considered “entertainment,” but of course it has a high attrition rate because horses have rather delicate legs. He also got beat and spurred and yanked on by a clueless barrel racer and an alcoholic wannabe cowboy (not the same as a real cowboy, at all.) He’s covered in scars and has some injuries that would have maybe killed a less stubborn horse. The Charro guys never did get him to “dance” for them either. He wouldn’t play their game and when he was too broken down to be entertaining any more, they dumped him back with the dealer they got him from. Luckily for him, his pretty face saved him from a double-decker to Mexico.
Like there’s this- could be a wire cut, or something else Went through to the tendon sheath at least, maybe the tendon itself.
And then there is this- something almost tore his heal clear off. You can see the permanent crack that grows into the hoof because of the severe damage to the coronet band. The scar goes all the way across the back of his heel. I don’t know how he made it through this one to being mostly sound.
He has a back injury too. He isn’t ridden today, of course, he’s fully retired.
Oh, the place I got him from was riding “rescue” horses like this one:
Her skin had multiple tears on it and she was most certainly quite emaciated, but they had adults riding on her, and were using her in the kid’s riding camp.
This poor thing was a walking skeleton with the most fucked up legs I have ever seen on a living horse. He was boarding there and animal control was often anonymously called on him, but nothing was ever done.
Here was another horse they used in the kid’s camp for riding. Nice hernia, eh?
And this was Sol, a week after I started feeding him. I’d just paid a farrier to trim his hooves- they were so overgrown that he was getting “elf shoes,” where the hooves start to curl up. He was a lot skinnier than this photo shows.
These were his teeth, right before the dentist floated him. They’d clearly been growing for years (that’s where “long in the tooth” comes from) with no dental care, and his mouth and tongue were full of lacerations. He was soaking his hay in his water so he could get some nutrition out of it, since he couldn’t chew properly. His jaw couldn’t even move to one side.
And here is the same horse from the same side, three years later. He’s wearing a fly mask to keep the flies away from his eyeballs- it’s mesh and he can see out of it. He walks up to the house every day to have it put on, and comes back every night to have it taken off.
Sure looks like a completely different animal, doesn’t he?
He went from living in a 9 foot by 9 foot stall that was fetlock-deep full of his own waste to a 95 acre pasture with a herd of his own. He trusts people again, and I hope he is happy and that he dreams peacefully now. He really has transformed, personalitywise, too.
Oh, and those evil bastards who were neglecting the horses and using them until they died? They got evicted, finally, their horses were seized, and now they’re turning tricks on the street to pay for their meth habit. Seriously, they are now whores on the street.
Heh, and here’s a Lippizzaner cantering:
And Sol cantering: (he was a little bit underweight after a really hard winter, but I changed barns and he’s overweight now, haha)
Hey maybe he’s a secretly stolen Lippizzaner! ;} Naw prolly not, grey horses aren’t all that rare these days.
You are a pretty cool chick, and Bullshido thinks I have a crush on you.
…now post his cock.
Thanks!
chambers shotgun
There are moments in this modern world when I feel the fear that, despite all our scientific advances, we might not make it as a species. This generally causes me a bit of sorrow when I ponder all the beauty that humans have wrought.
Then I read posts like the OP’s and think, “Maybe the end of the human race isn’t the worst thing that could ever happen.”