From Today's Walkabout

[madshutterbug]

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




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.

Comments

[ziactrice.livejournal.com]

I've heard a pissed-off water buffalo will commence hunting the human who was foolish enough to provoke it. Mmmmm... not gonna even look at one cross-wise, me.

[madshutterbug.livejournal.com]

I don't think it consisted of 'hunting' the individual mentioned above; certainly the water buffalo in question felt quite annoyed by them and came over to tell them to stop. Said individual then retreated to the top of an armoured personnel carrier, with enough height to be above and enough mass the water buffalo couldn't tip it over to get at them.

Unfortunately for both the water buffalo and the family it belonged to, it was sufficiently injured by the 'smaller caliber' weapon that it needed to be killed, and the also afore-mentioned Ma-Deuce (Browning 50 caliber heavy machine gun) employed to do so, with a single shot.

Unfortunately (but not regrettably) for the Mighty Hunter, there were also local regulations in place against unnecessarily dispatching the livestock of locals, specifically mentioning water buffalo (since they are used to help cultivate rice fields and such). Amongst other things such as reduction in pay grade and confinement, he was also fined the replacement expense of a water buffalo for the family.