• SSTF@lemmy.world
    1252·
    10 days ago

    50/50 chance of getting murdered in the woods or seeing cows.

  • xpinchx@lemmy.world
    98·
    10 days ago

    Baristas can get crazy connections lol. My friend had a wedding venue cancel and keep their deposit at the start of covid. Tons of arguments and calls and threats. His (now) wife is a barista and had a regular that was a lawyer, she mentioned it to him and sued the venue for their money back and more, pro bono didn’t charge them anything 👌

  • ivanafterall ☑️@lemmy.worldEnglish
    871·
    10 days ago

    Only part I don’t buy is that they were like “ok fuck it” after work, like they were reluctant. Don’t pretend you weren’t working distracted all day, waiting to go play with those cows.

    • Ton the Supermassive@lemm.ee
      501·
      10 days ago

      I think the op meant that they weren’t so sure IF there even are any cows to begin with - as in it might be a scam…that’s how I interpret it anyway.

      Edit: nonetheless, cows are very cute and I’m jealous of this person.

      • KittenBiscuits@lemm.eeEnglish
        20·
        10 days ago

        I took it as feeling maybe a little too eager and not wanting to irritate new cow friends despite “come on over any time”. Is that like really anytime, or sometime in the future but same day may be weird,…nah, fuck it.

        • southsamurai
          10·
          9 days ago

          Legit, folks that are willing to invite you over to see livestock aren’t industrial farmers, they’re running their own. They wouldn’t invite you if it wasn’t a genuine any time offer given with an address only. If they give a phone # with it, that means to call ahead.

          I have a cousin that owns and operates a small dairy farm. Dude is always open to visitors, though he warns people that he and the workers would just keep on keeping on while you pet the cows.

          So few people really want to go and smell poo, while walking around, just to pet cows and see a working farm that it’s always a treat for him. Unless you’re a relative, because you get put to work lol. Hell, he’s put visitors to work too. Never anything major, but still.

          The local elementary schools do a yearly visit for (iirc) 3rd and 6th grades, though on different days. He has a little section that’s essentially a petting zoo where he’ll move his friendliest critters for them to meet. There’s usually a few hens, one or two of the cows that are the most sedate, this one old sow he took in from someone that didn’t know how big pigs get, plus the farm cats running around.

          They don’t get to milk cows by hand any more, too much liability; but my uncle that ran the place back when we were kids would let the older kids do it. He’d make the young’ns in the family do it.

          But they get to sample fresh (not raw) milk, watch the milking machines work, “help” make cheese, even churn butter.

          It’s his favorite day of the year.

          What’s extra cool is the “retired” cows. Most of those girls are super chill. So, if you’re an adult, he’ll usually let you just wander around with them. Those cows are ridiculous. They’ll come up and rub their heads on you until you give them scritches. That’s where he pulls the most relaxed cows for the kids to pet. There’s this one that’s always following me around when I go there, until I get put to work lol. I can’t even remember how old she is, but she’s been around for a while, something like 12 years?

          Mind you, not every cow retires like that. There’s an upper limit to how many a working farm can afford to feed and such before it isn’t realistic. But he keeps as many as he can.

        • NeatoBuilds@mander.xyzEnglish
          2·
          10 days ago

          Both, I don’t want to bug my cow friend but also what if they’re just a human trafficker and I may never see anyone I know ever again

  • neidu3English
    62·
    10 days ago

    I grew up with cows. They’re surprisingly similar to dogs. Just as playful, just not as bright. They’re awesome.

    • Corkyskog
      34·
      10 days ago

      I had a family member that was a traveling cow inseminator and he loved cows. I was at a steak house with him and asked why he is eating a giant steak for dinner if he loved cows so much. He kind of just shrugged and said “without the steak, I wouldn’t get to hang around cows all day”

      Spending part of my summer with him was illuminating. I bet beef would be way less popular if people got a chance to pet a cow regularly. Very smart animals, at least emotionally smart.

    • zod000@lemmy.ml
      21·
      9 days ago

      I had a pet cow growing up named Softy. We got him at a rural fair and because he looked frail and my stepmom felt in love with him. He just hung out with our dogs and pretty much through he WAS a dog. He played fetch, but didn’t know what to do with the tennis ball when he’d get it.

      A couple of years later we realized to our horror that he was now a gigantic bull that wanted nothing more than to murder us for some reason. We gave him his own little pasture because he couldn’t be trusted around the dogs or the house anymore. He ended up getting stolen one night after we had repeated refused requests to sell him to some guys that wanted to butcher him. RIP Softy you murderous beast. :(

      • SwingingTheLamp@midwest.socialEnglish
        10·
        9 days ago

        Years ago, I went caving out in the sticks with an outdoors group. To change into my caving outfit, I went behind the end of a cornrow, next to a pasture fence. A group of three cows up the hill noticed, and moseyed down the hill to watch. It was pretty clear from their body language that they were bored and curious. (And also, voyeurs.)

        The lead cow mooed at me in a way that kind of sounded like a question. What the heck, I figured, and mooed back. I don’t know what I said, but it was scandalous. The cows’ faces looked like they were positively shocked, and they promptly turned around and marched back over the hill. It was like a real-life “My mother was a saint!” sitcom joke, but with cows instead of a foreign language.

        Yeah, I had no doubt that there was intelligence there.

        • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
          4·
          9 days ago

          Yeah, cows and one of my dogs might be of near equal intelligence, but the other one would lose an intelligence test to an amoeba.

          He’s super dumb is what I’m saying.

    • MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml
      3·
      9 days ago

      Wasn’t there this guy that bred dog-sized cows? I think south america? What happened to it?

      Edit: dog-sized cows, not cow-sized dogs.

  • theedqueen@lemmy.world
    39·
    9 days ago

    If some stranger came up to me and promised me I would get to play with baby animals I would go too. Yea, that’s how I’d die.