20,000 Cattle, Horses Wandering in Southeast Texas

September 17, 2008

  • September 17, 2008 at 1:39 am
    Reality Bites says:
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    Thank you IJ. Unfortunately heads are spinning with thoughts of AIG – too much to deal with – to be able to spin this one today.

  • September 17, 2008 at 2:34 am
    Jack says:
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    While AIG investors and employees may loose their livelyhood, these cattle are the livelyhood of their owners. This is a good story and these folks need help with their cattle.
    Why don’t you tell your wife the same thing about her cat and see what you get tonight.

  • September 17, 2008 at 2:41 am
    Reality Bites says:
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    Jack I get your point. Lighten up and loosen up. Life stinks for everybody somedays.

    PS the wife is allergic to cats.

  • September 17, 2008 at 2:46 am
    Now THIS is a story says:
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    Too bad it doesn’t draw the number of responses that AIG does. This is SO much more interesting!!!

  • September 17, 2008 at 3:02 am
    Jack says:
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    For those of us that live on the Coast and were able to move 1100 head to higher ground, we are lucky. We also didn’t get the predicted 16 foot wall of water, not including the wave action. Hay is being flown in to Bolivar Island as are water troughs. Hopefully generators can help the pumps keep up with the water needed there. Bridges are out and roads are heavly damaged and can’t be used to truck the animals out. Calls have gone out for portable equipment to pen and hold the cattle and wait for trucks to get there. Cattle will have to swim several sloughs and the intracoastal canal to get to the trucks. This is in the area this article speaks about but it is isolated. Without the ferry operation, which is out of use for 2 months and with the bridges out, there is no way to get there. It will be the old fashioned way–horseback. And it is maybe 20 miles or so to drive the cattle. Horses have to make the trip to the cattle and then back.
    I am taking claim applications in my office for storm damage to houses, cars, and boats. Needless to say, I would rather be horseback and may get there later in the week.
    Good luck to these folks.

  • September 17, 2008 at 3:07 am
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    20,000 head of livestock roaming loose is definitely a tragedy. If 20,000 head are wandering, where’s the rest of the cows? Is that why dead cows are all over the roads? What is this, Hurricane George Romero? Tropical Storm Tarantino?

    Whys is it you can’t lead a horse to water, but when you add salt, they all get thirsty? Don’t cows like salt licks? Deer in my neck of the woods sure do.

    And what about that neck in the woods? Is it connected to 20,000 heads?

    Even cowboys are having a hard time. All they can ride are quarter horses. What happened to the other three quarters of the horses? Are they with the cow bits on the side of the roads?

    And who rides a horse named Sister? What do you tell the guy out in the barn – “Saddle up my Sister – its gonna be a wild ride tonight”?

    Contributions of hay, feedstocks and cash are being sought. Is that how low the dollar has fallen – we’re using it as cattle feed? I thought the Euro was even lower.

    But forget donating range cubes. Looks too much like those dehydrated beef cubes sold in the little cans. Cows don’t like them – its kind of like nibbling on Auntie Elsie.

    I like the name of the emergency efforts – Operation No Feces – oops – forgot a consonant. But anyhow we’re talking cowchips so maybe I was close.

    How much suntan lotion is used by 20 cows down at the Escapes Hotel? I’ve met some corn-fed gals in my day (and dated a herd or two) and BOY could they go through the Coppertone. By the gallon. Udderly disgusting.

    While I feel bad for Galveston, you have to wonder if the tumbling tumbleweeds are really blowing through this Western ghost town. Two calves roaming. All we need now is Clint.

    Texas – we feel your pain. And we’ll give you GWB back along with a Brownie or two.

  • September 17, 2008 at 6:24 am
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    I want to work in your office. Sniffing glue is banned in mine.



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