• southsamurai@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    They be going to a livestock show.

    If you’ve never been to one, they are more fun, but way smellier, than you’d think.

    In smaller, local shows, chances are good you’ll get to pet some of the critters once they’ve been judged. I highly recommend petting any cattle, goats, and horses that you’re allowed to.

    Pigs, less so. Even the spoiled rotten ones are prone to squealing randomly, and it is ear splitting.

    If you’re lucky, someone local will have less common stuff like emus or alpaca. Pet the mammals, don’t go near the dinosaurs. Not that emu are any more prone to biting/pecking than alpacas (though they can be) it’s more than emu don’t have a throttle. Whatever they do, they do it hard. Well, in my limited experience anyway.

    But don’t ever just assume you’re allowed to approach and touch the animals. You can ask, but adept accept the more probable no with a smile. Not all critters handle strangers well, even if they’re very socialized. Some of the humans just don’t like strangers touching their animals. Sometimes it’s show policy.

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      Talking about livestock shows, it is endlessly hilarious to me seeingn shaven show goats having jackets on them, like nature didn’t give them a natural jacket.

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          With the following animal characteristics: brain, heart, blood, vessels, sexual organs, muscles, cells, dopamine, water, illness, emotions… does that mean that every human being is actually something and not someone? 🤔

          What about babies? They do not have basic language and structural cognition, do not understand basic human emotions, cry out loud for just beeing alive… are they something? Or someone?

          I guess it’s just a shift of perspective before you actually come to conclusion that Animals are living beeings and sometimes way more “human” than some humanoid i have encountered in my life ^^.

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              Only some people are something - like Jews during WW2. We call living creatures including people “things”, because then it feels more ok to kill them. It lowers the empathy.

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                they weren’t things. treating them like things is part of what made that wrong.

                and treating animals like people is also wrong.

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                  By treating animals like people, do you mean respecting them and not killing them or letting them work as senators?

                  IMO treating animals like things is definitely wrong, in the same way treating people like things is. Neither of them is a thing, all us animals are alive.

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    2 days ago

    Hate to… rain on this parade, but doesn’t shampooing remove the natural oil from their hides? The oil that’s supposed to repel rain, the rain which might cool them down to unhealthy levels.

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      2 days ago

      I think that cow is being used in the generic, and inaccurate, sense of being synonymous with cattle.

      I’m fairly sure those are steer, not cows.

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        There are LOADS of names for cows depending on how old they are, what species they are, their gender, if they are being kept for meat or for milk among other shit.

        At least in NL all these names still fall under the category “koe” aka cow.

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        I’m verrry sure those are year old cows who haven’t had a calf yet. Their udders are flat. Bulls usually have a wider forehead and generally different body shape.

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          Could be! I just thought I saw dong.

          I’ve been around cows, steer, and bulls, but not enough to notice that kind of difference at a glance in a low res pic. Hell, probably wouldn’t catch that kind of thing in high def tbh.

          Come to think of it though, older cows aren’t usually taken to shows, at least not around here.

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    I saw a llama covered in hay and crap on 1/4 of its body today. If it were all over, would have mistaken for it’s coat. Just looked extra furry like a lion mane in front. I couldn’t understand until one of the other moms pointed out it was just dirty and must have been rolling around.

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    2 days ago

    How do you think they would get ready for cow beauty consent, then?