Memories of Ursula....
If you are talking about dating a Norwegian-American girl from North Dakota named "Ursula" as I did you would still not want to use "ursine".
A slapping would have been the least of my injuries.
Not me, but a real estate lady told me yesterday that some years ago she went into a pasture to check it out a possible listing and was blind-sided by a buffalo that kept her at bay for four housrs until the owner could arrive.
Holy "Bull"
One of the other surveyors in our office has a bovine 'addiction' and spends his spare time (and money) messing with his herd. Cutting, baling and hauling hay and the like.
He's got a nice bull calf (around 600 pounds, I think) that he decided to keep for freezer beef so he needed to relieve him of his pendulous "bullhood". Rather than mess with it himself he loaded him up in the trailer and ran him over to the local vet. He was telling me how amazed he was at how docile the bull was about getting into the trailer.
Well, the trip home wasn't so easy. My partner made it out with just a pie plate size bruise on his thigh. The vet wound up getting his ribs taped up. Nobody could understand why the bull's temperament had changed so much.
It was a no-brainer to me. The last time that bull got in the trailer somebody cut his nuts off! He ain't never gettin' in that trailer again!
rule number one-
always have an expendable crewman.
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They must be using the economy stuff. We used the high tensile tightlock and anything else we have tried is not going to hold up to climbing or antlers very well. I suppose on a Texas size ranch it would be too tempting to use the cheap stuff. The high tensile has been climbed by Bears (well over 220 lbs), struck by lightning, had trees fall on it, and Deer attack it with gusto with antlers for more than 20 years. Nothing fazed it so far (although it might eventually rust as the lightning took out the galvanization).
http://www.afence.com/store/home.php?cat=437
Ensign "Ricky" Syndrome
Puma cubs? Not me. but....
Here's some of my wife's friends:
Isabell the Bobcat has the run of the house. At 150 pounds, Zinnia the Puma stays in her cage I believe. Although I would not put it past Bob or Leah to bring her in during thunderstorms.
Really good folks. Especially if you're a big cat.
Aaaand, I got stung today
Just once. :pissed: I'm OK.
What the heck do yellow-jackets have against me crashing through the brush with a machete, anyway? (I'd better get a couple of new Epi-pens, though. The one I'm packin' at work is way past its prime.)
Yikes Zapper!
🙂 :good: