General Discussion
Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums2000 lb.bulls found dead in Oregon with tongues and genitals cut off, and no blood around.
No leads. And not the first time this has happened.
https://www.npr.org/2019/10/08/767283820/not-one-drop-of-blood-cattle-mysteriously-mutilated-in-oregon
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)Wait it was in the mid 70's and the FBI investigated it.
More than 1500 cattle were bloodlessly mutilated in 22 states.
https://vault.fbi.gov/Animal%20Mutilation
roamer65
(36,744 posts)These mutilations have been going on for YEARS.
First time I have seen a mainstream media pick up the story.
Folks, we arent alone...better get used to it...just my gut feeling.
No pun intended.
jcgoldie
(11,613 posts)Thats surely the aliens favorite cuts of beef, cow tongues and testicles...
Generic Other
(28,979 posts)Hit my area in the 80s and 90s.
GemDigger
(4,305 posts)that the "Testicle Festival" was around and they are hard to find. It's not something you can get anytime you want.
lapfog_1
(29,193 posts)and speculation ran wild about Aliens, etc
Turns out they died from a rare form of encephalitis and the genitals and tongue (and sometimes the brains) were removed by small carnivores and bacteria attacking the soft tissues and easy body entry points first.
Disaffected
(4,547 posts)don't ruin everything with fact and logic.
lapfog_1
(29,193 posts)Lets get our tinfoil hats out now... maybe organize a movement to rush Area 51
Disaffected
(4,547 posts)behind you.
TidalWave46
(2,061 posts)Are you one of them?
lapfog_1
(29,193 posts)but then I got older and found that I was, sadly, human after all.
A HERETIC I AM
(24,362 posts)You probably don't have any fingerprints, do ya?
And your breath always smells minty, I'll bet.
lapfog_1
(29,193 posts)due to all the crimes I could get away with!
jcgoldie
(11,613 posts)I have cattle and livestock guard dogs, Pyrenees mix. They are awesome guarding calves goats, chickens, but they consume any dead animals on the farm to avoid attracting predators. Last year I lost my 2000 lb Angus herd bull. Healthy as could be and choked on a osage orange hedge apple. They try to chew them in the fall when they fall on the ground and occasionally get them lodged in their throat. When I found him the dogs had already eaten his nuts and tongue... A dead animal often has its mouth open and the tongue and testicles are the only accessible parts of the corpse that aren't covered in cowhide (the same tough stuff your shoes are made of.) Stop reading if you have a weak stomach because next they will go in through the anus and devour the innards. That's why the animal in the picture looks like a hollowed out shell. Who knows why the animals died, but the mutilation could have been canines, rodents... who knows what scavengers but the missing parts are not some mysterious sign of kinky alien bestiality fetishes...
lapfog_1
(29,193 posts)so this isn't some strange event.
The only strange thing is a bunch of cattle dying at once due to a fast spreading disease that isn't noticed by the rancher until there are dozens of dead cattle around.
jcgoldie
(11,613 posts)If I ever lost more than one cow at a time I'd sure as hell start wondering what was in the hay.
lapfog_1
(29,193 posts)all I remember was the stories from Colorado in the 1970s complaining about "cow mutilation" and then the discovery (a decade later I think) about the disease that afflicted them.
Hekate
(90,562 posts)Kali
(55,004 posts)lack of blood and "surgical" removal of genitals, mouthparts, eyes is totally normal.
amusing how people who have never looked at a dead animal suddenly know aliens have been mutilating cows.
A HERETIC I AM
(24,362 posts)What do YOU know, huh?
Ptah
(33,019 posts)Kid Berwyn
(14,807 posts)Linda Moulton Howe investigated those and reported that, in typical cases, the animals were drained of blood. There usually was no blood at the scene. The edges of the wounds typically tongues, sex organs, a/o anuses removed surgically appeared cauterized. No footprints or signs of humans or other animals in the vicinity. In many cases, predators stayed away from the carcasses long after discovery. And, yes, there are connections to the UFO phenomenon.
Her book, An Alien Harvest, is solidly researched and documented.
https://books.google.com/books/about/An_Alien_Harvest.html?id=17HeoAEACAAJ&source=kp_cover
lapfog_1
(29,193 posts)Kid Berwyn
(14,807 posts)I like the links, even to the professional skeptic types.
Beringia
(4,316 posts)The story says:
On his whiteboard, he has a running list scrawled in green marker with the top theories. What's clear: It isn't bears, wolves, cougars or poisonous plants. Nor were the animals shot.
But they don't give us his running list of top theories.
Drahthaardogs
(6,843 posts)I don't believe it's human caused, but it's weird
roamer65
(36,744 posts)After two aerial sightings I definitely could not explain away in 2011 and 2012, I would like to know more.
Brother Buzz
(36,384 posts)riversedge
(70,092 posts)looks like its innards are gone.
A HERETIC I AM
(24,362 posts)He is trying to lose weight and is on the "I'll just lay in the sun till I'm a bit dried out" diet.
He'll be right as rain in no time.
defacto7
(13,485 posts)A HERETIC I AM
(24,362 posts)Extra celery.
Bulls like extra celery in their soup.
CentralMass
(15,265 posts)A HERETIC I AM
(24,362 posts)The Great British Colombian Tan and White. What's wrong with it, then?
"The only reason he is still lying in that spot is because he has been NAILED there.
That and all his guts have dried up and blown away....BUT STILL!"
CentralMass
(15,265 posts)Autumn
(44,984 posts)A HERETIC I AM
(24,362 posts)First the bloating, then the deflating.
roamer65
(36,744 posts)Harry Reid thought the same of aerial phenomena.
We should reopen Project Blue Book, for real.
WhiteTara
(29,692 posts)traveling around investigating the cattle mutilations. Here's an article I found that was written about another woman Barbara was working with
https://www.zersetzung.org/about-dr-karla-turner
qazplm135
(7,447 posts)shame.
underpants
(182,628 posts)Baclava
(12,047 posts)IcyPeas
(21,842 posts)milestogo
(16,829 posts)Who knew?
struggle4progress
(118,236 posts)We found a big bullshitter in the White House with no brains! and he was surrounded by many other bullshitters with no balls!
GemDigger
(4,305 posts)Farmer-Rick
(10,140 posts)Not enough evidence to prove it was aliens. Where are the little alien footprints? Where are the landing markings? Why has no one any alien evidence?
It's never aliens.