Cow Cannibal
☆ May 22, 2011
Frisco is a cow cannibal.
He licks and nibbles any and all elk legs he might find, discarded by Charlie.
Here he is chewing on a moose hide.
It was given to me years ago by a friend. I had it draped over my fence today
to clean it. Heard a mild racket, found Frisco trying to eat it.
Soon Daisy appeared. She smelled the moose hide, became horrified.
A murdered relative!
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May 22nd, 2011 @ 11:29 pm
Daisy looks very outraged…She has a certain queen of England about her, Cisco is just a teenager, he is experimenting …
May 23rd, 2011 @ 6:19 am
Poor Daisy! She doesn’t understand. nothing more. :-)
May 23rd, 2011 @ 6:54 am
That shot of Daisy is just perfect!
Doesn’t that make for a new name: Frisco the Cannibull!
(Sorry, couldn’t help it.)
Hey, Shreve, I wonder if you celebrate your animals’ birthdays? It’s my horse’s birthday today. Usually I bake him a horsie treat (one year a special carrot cake, another it was a birthday watermellon with carrot candles and greens, and sweet-feed “granola”). Just curious!
May 23rd, 2011 @ 7:23 am
Thanks for the morning laugh. Daisy face is priceless.
May 23rd, 2011 @ 7:31 am
What a great snapshot of Daisy! She does look horrified! I don’t know anything about bulls and was surprised to see he took an interest in the hide. My cats LOVE squirrel tails and rabbit’s feet – and I have to keep my sheep and goat pelts up and away from them, or they go nuts!
May 23rd, 2011 @ 8:11 am
Is he after the salt in things? Do you have salt licks for them? Daisy’s picture is perfect, well done.
May 23rd, 2011 @ 8:24 am
“…Daisy…became horrified…a murdered relative!” For some reason this made me chuckle out loud. Thanks!
May 23rd, 2011 @ 8:44 am
Happy&Sad
Young cows LOVE hair. On our way from IL to ME as a youngster we stopped at a motel and sat outside. On one side were cows and calf’s,on the other side was long tall grasses. My brother leaned his head against a fence post. A calf came by and started nibbling on his hair! Our dog Gypsy heard the commotion and went under the fence to check the problem, the calf went “MOO” Gypsy went “YIKE!” and skittered under the fence after running into the Calf’s leg. I heard the voice of Gypsy in my head; “It was BIG, I’m SCARED!” By this time our parents came out from the office, we told them the story and recreated the hair incident,and took pictures. By then Gypsy was busy pronging (going bouncy bounce in the tall grass like a Giselle in the long grass).
The Warning:
In a earlier post I mentioned Fay who got Yakobs/Kreutsman disease (Mad Cow) and died.
A horrible death.
Both diseases come from a Rogue Protein in the nervous system, you can’t cook it out, (you have this protein in your system already but this rearranges it and kills you)
or use a antibiotic. Buy your Beef with care, not the feed-lot stuff as in a chain store, as grain and grass fed beef are fine. The feed lots feed ground up beef parts (Brains,Lungs)and the infected cattle in feed for other animals including BEEF) hence the problem. The Yakob/Kreutzman comes from a pair of doctors about why cannibals in Indonesia and the Philippines around 1900 started acting erratically, they named it, no cure.
Shreve you take care of your farmily, I have no worries for you I just would hate for the fans of yours to have this gruesome disease.
May 23rd, 2011 @ 9:17 am
Love the picture of Daisy!
May 23rd, 2011 @ 9:22 am
Great pictures. Thanks for another amusing story.
May 23rd, 2011 @ 10:08 am
A friend had a mustang that once nibbled on a dead rabbit. Her name went from “Sally” to “Meat-eater”. Not sure how that relates to this but there it is.
May 23rd, 2011 @ 12:54 pm
Reminds me of a card I once gave my husband:
Front: “I used to be embarrassed about my cowlick.”
Inside: “Then you taught me to kiss like a normal person.”
HA!
May 23rd, 2011 @ 2:51 pm
THAT IS HILARIOUS!!!!!!! omg.
May 23rd, 2011 @ 4:45 pm
Poor Frisco was just confused. You said “salt lick”; he thought you said “elk lick.” Could happen to anybody.
Daisy is the very image of shock and horror though. Her face only lacks the “Duhn-duhn-DUHN” soundtrack behind it.
May 23rd, 2011 @ 4:52 pm
Love Daisy’s expression.
May 23rd, 2011 @ 5:09 pm
Great shot of Daisy. And sounds like Frisco’s got a fetish. :)
We have five cats and one of the males will do anything for a paperclip. He will raid my two desks in our business office and then drop the clips in his food bowls. He’s unrelenting.
May 23rd, 2011 @ 5:13 pm
It happens…I have a macaw who is quite the meat eater. Especially when it comes to anything that could be her cousin. I give it to her because I have heard they are smart enough to get the marrow out, marrow being full of good healthy stuff. I haven’t seen her do it yet, but she has a good time picking the meat off the bones. I try not to think about the specifics of it all. It is kind of weird, isn’t it?
May 23rd, 2011 @ 5:51 pm
what a face Daisy has – so funny!!!
May 23rd, 2011 @ 8:59 pm
I am sooo drawn to this picture of Daisy! I keep coming back to admire and study it. It’s like a painting…the pale background, soft edges of her body, then the crisp sharp shape of her neck and head. The golden ears and topknot are the icing on a stunning photo. Definitely one of my favs Shreve!
May 23rd, 2011 @ 10:53 pm
Daisy is so beautiful! I mean, Frisco’s extremely handsome, but your girl is totally the Aphrodite of cows.
Thanks so much for sharing so generously with us!
May 24th, 2011 @ 12:03 am
two posts in a row with some serious comic relief! Thanks for sharing.
May 24th, 2011 @ 12:06 am
Actually 3! Ricardo cracks me up too.
May 24th, 2011 @ 8:04 am
I think that photo of Daisy should be a t-shirt, with a caption that says, “I’m the Queen.” ;)
May 24th, 2011 @ 12:29 pm
Like Kathleen, I have birds who love eggs and meat. I have let them eat chicken, though it’s a little horrifying. Heck, I’m a little horrified that *I* eat chicken, considering how I love my bird family, which includes a very spoiled pigeon amongst the parrots. I tell myself they know not what they do … :-)
May 24th, 2011 @ 5:13 pm
These last two posts are HILARIOUS! Daisy is such a beauty. Maybe Frisco just doesn’t want to play by the rules. There’s a few of us out there *wink*.
May 25th, 2011 @ 4:07 pm
Maybe Daisy thought Frisco was the moose-murderer!
May 25th, 2011 @ 8:30 pm
lol Shreve- this post made my day. oh, what a tangled web we weave!
May 26th, 2011 @ 10:34 pm
poor frisco, being dissed in all these posts!
I think he looks incredibly beautiful in that photo, the light hitting him just so. every hair in place, clean and shiny… the dark luminous eyes, the gleaming nose, long smooth muscle of his throat.
there is a certain point in adolescence when you look at them, animal or human, and they are the picture of perfection… i think this is that moment for him.
May 27th, 2011 @ 9:25 am
CONGRATS TO THE MOM AND YOU.
HOPE MOM AND BABE ARE WELL.
As for colour, what would be nice would be mostly white with a few delicate splashes of black. Something elegant and yet layed back. Just like her mommy.
June 4th, 2011 @ 11:46 pm
Daisy’s blistering disapproval reaches right through the screen.
July 11th, 2011 @ 2:08 pm
Love Daisy’s outraged expression!
Though Frisco’s behaviour isn’t all that unusual. Herbivores engage in carnivory a lot more often than a lot of people suspect. There’s an interesting article about it here:
http://scienceblogs.com/tetrapodzoology/2010/12/carnivory_in_cows_and_deer.php