That's my fourth cousin on my mother's side of the family.?ÿ Her name is Ms. Bonnie Parker.?ÿ Running away from anything normal is common with her.?ÿ Her boyfriend's name is Clyde.

Those hooves had extremely little traction, especially due to the raised design of the metal roofing material.

I have seen a photo of a cow on a roof one time.?ÿ It was in 1986 when this area was hit with a massive flood.?ÿ The livestock auction barn in Fort Scott, Kansas is situated adjacent to the convergence of Mill Creek with the Marmaton River and Mill Creek carries more water than the river.?ÿ One hundred percent in the flood plain.?ÿ There were only a few cattle being held there at the time as it was not sale day.?ÿ The flood level was eight feet higher than the BFE.?ÿ The cowboys tried to get there in time to somehow get the cattle out of the pens, but they were too late.?ÿ This one cow must have taken swimming lessons and learned how to tread water for quite a spell.?ÿ She literally floated from her pen up to the flat roof portion of the auction barn.?ÿ She was safe, then.?ÿ The problem was she had nowhere to go and, until the water receded, no one could even attempt to get her down alive and uninjured.

I remember this flood particularly well because I had been involved with site work on a multi-story motel about a half mile from the auction barn only a few years earlier.?ÿ The bottom floor of rooms was set to be precisely one foot above the BFE.?ÿ The flood water filled that bottom floor all the way to the ceiling.?ÿ It is also memorable because I knew a couple of the people who filed a lawsuit against the DOT and won.?ÿ This was the first major flood after the construction of a completely new route over the Marmaton River.?ÿ There is only one, very small, RCB culvert running under about a half mile of fill elevating the road bed.?ÿ A rare case of David whopping Goliath right between the eyes in court.

Speaking of Mr. Divine Bovine, I couldn't help but to add this (see attached): ???¦?ÿ

@holy-cow?ÿ

@holy-cow?ÿ

I HATE IT when that happens!?ÿ

Far more than you ever wanted to know.?ÿ Warning Warning?ÿ Do not try this at home.

The most common penile injury in breeding bulls is penile hematoma (broken penis). Rather than just a small vessel rupture, these are generally tunica albuginea ruptures. The amount of pressure in the bullƒ??s erect penis is very high. If the bull bumps the cows flank, something has to give. The penis almost always ruptures at the base of the sigmoid flexure at the level of the retractor penis muscle attachments. It ruptures on the dorsal surface. This area is weaker due to the bending required. This results in a bleed on the dorsum of the penis with the size of the hematoma related to the amount of breeding attempted by the bull after the injury.

Multiple complications can occur :

The dorsal nerve can be damaged either during the rupture or be entrapped by scar tissue during the healing. Some of these bulls will develop nerve damage with further breeding attempts as the tissue tears rather than stretches.

The tunic can fail to heal, leading to?ÿ loss of pressure in the corpus cavernosum and the inability to gain an erection.

The hematoma can become infected, turning into an abscess.

Adhesions can develop between the penis and sheath, creating phimosis or inability to extrude the penis.

The prepuce is often prolapsed due to limited space in the sheath and can get damaged.