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madshutterbug ([personal profile] madshutterbug) wrote2010-08-27 06:58 pm

From Today's Walkabout

Houdini and I took a walk along the fence line over on the Cow Pasture looking for downed branches. What with the wet weather experienced this week, it's a good possibility. After all, while out feeding the Ranch this morning we heard a branch fall over on our neighbor Miss P's side of the fence. We did not find any branches across the fence. This is probably a good thing, because we did find

Suspicious Neighbors


In case you are wondering, those are Asian Water Buffalo. Our other neighbor, Doc P, he raises them. We gave them a wide berth, and still kept an eye on them because they mostly consider fences as suggestions. Sometimes as not particularly important suggestions.
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[identity profile] batwrangler.livejournal.com 2010-08-29 02:57 am (UTC)(link)
There's a really impressive scene in a nature show of a water buffalo taking on ELEPHANTS to save her calf. I wouldn't mess with them.

[identity profile] madshutterbug.livejournal.com 2010-08-29 12:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Mostly we give them quite a comfortable space. Even when not being 'riled' they are more suspicious of unknown activity than domestic cattle, something visible in the above photography. Every member of the Herd is watching the Human and Wolf walk by. Herd turned as a unit to track us...