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When cows go wandering past our house, they frequently Moo! very loudly. Some are quiet, and just go sauntering past as they nibble on the vegetation or garbage at the side of the road. Others Moo! and Moo! and Moo! like there's no tomorrow.
The cows wandering past today are loud.
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Peepers are loud. I mean LOUD. There is a small swamp is our back yard, and when i am talking on the phone in the house, people say they hear the peepers. (tiny tree frogs.)
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I'd be loud and annoying too if I were a cow, people always trying to milk me and tenderize me for steak, it's a form of passive resistance!
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They are loud when it is feeding time and they are VERY loud when they get separated from their calves. We live in cow-calf country and I can tell this is absolute truth.
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Ooh, and I was out watering my straw the other day (which is down to cover the grass seed) and I saw a bird running down the street. It was the weirdest thing I'd ever seen! I think it must have been some type of Pheasant, or something. It had a longer neck than the pictures of pheasants I'm finding on Google. Almost like a wild goose, but it was the most incredibly rich brown color I've ever seen, with a deep red chest. And the top half brown was different than the bottom half brown. I can't remember exactly what was different, but I remember that almost exactly halfway down the bird, it changed. I'm almost tempted to say that it went from a solid color to a checkerboard color, but I'm not sure.
But a bird was running down the street! I tell you, it's crazy out there. That's why I try to stay indoors!
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While in college for a few years I lived out in an old house on a farm. They had an electric fence that would break a lot and the cows would get in the yard. KC, my husky would have a field day. Eventually the cows got used to her and would sleep near her dog house. KC really enjoyed licking their ears out. I guess she was trying to mother them. Really grossed me out. But the cows seemed to like having her as a buddy…..
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quote: Peepers are loud. I mean LOUD. There is a small swamp is our back yard, and when i am talking on the phone in the house, people say they hear the peepers. (tiny tree frogs.)
I heard frogs for the first time this evening from the river.
I remember spring peepers from Virginia. I liked them, but then they were not right outside the window. Peepers from the past. Nice memory.
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I've been told that cows are not as smelly as elephants.
See, cows wander around everywhere here. Well, we also have the stray dogs and cats, too, as well as goats and oxen and water buffalo and horses and sometimes, even an elephant.
Fahim tells me - because I'm lucky enough to not have experienced it myself - that elephant dung is the smelliest of the lot. He tells me that an elephant did its business in front of his parents house while he was still living there. Most atrocious. (We need a "smell no evil" graemlin. Where is it?)
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I remember seeing something on kids having elephant-dung fights in Africa on TV as a child...
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When I rode the bus to high school, we drove by a small cow pasture located just within the boundary of Green Bay, about a mile from my high school. And my high school was not exactly in a rural part of town...
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Cows here wander around like cheap whores . . . At roundup time, we'll see a dozen or more cows herded down the main road by two guys wearing sarongs and flip flops.
The other annoying part of it is the cow patties lining the road. When you step on the road, you always have to look first.
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screechy, not ignoring you on purpose. My internet is broken.
It's economic - there isn't enough grazing land this close to the city, so the cows are free to wander and graze on whatever vegetation and garbage is at the side of the road. Then, as I'm told, they wander home at milking time.
And it's like India. Sri Lanka has about 14% Hindus, keep in mind. So yes, there are the cows that are not used for eating or milk, but just wander around living out their existentialist existence, feeding on whatever.
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There's a field across from our house that occasionally contains cows. When they wander into eyesight of the window, the dogs lose it. They're convinced that we need to know that the cows are there RIGHT NOW.
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