Care

I mentioned in the previous post that it felt funny feeding the cattle with no snow on the ground. I had to start feeding everything though due to the lack of good quality graze though. I finally started to feed the cows some hay since they looked good but thier energy levels were starting to droop. Monitoring the animals so they don't get in bad shape isn't that hard, it just takes observation of what thier doing and when and you can tell if they are hurting. <br />n<br />nThere are some horses I see every day belonging to a neighborthat had two old mares not running with the herd and were starting to look extremly poor. These people couldn't miss them since they were standing on thier doorstep but they weren't feeding them or opening water for them. I normally don't have much truck with these people so I let it out on the Montana grapevine that if these horses didn't start getting fed some dire consequences were going to happen to the owners. Imagine that, in a couple of days they started feeding the horses and opening some water and the horses started looking better real short like. I really hated having to say something but taking care of your critters is a ranchers responsibility and people who don't feed thier critters enough and let them die ought to be shot.<br />n<br />nWhat really made me talk about this was this little clip I found about <a href="http://www.hpj.com/dtnnewstable.cfm?type=story&sid=13252" target="_new">38 head of cattle starving to death</a> because they were not getting eough nutrition. A little observation would have saved them all from a slow death. It just sickens me.<br />n<br />n<b>If all responsibility is imposed on you, then you may want to exploit the moment and want to be overwhelmed by the responsibility; yet if you try, you will notice that nothing was imposed on you, but that you are yourself this responsibility. Franz Kafka</b>