re: #206 Jadespring

You would think that parents wouldn’t do things like walk their three year old closer to a bear in order to get a picture… “Oh look Winnie the Poo! Cute”…but they do.

This might be natural selection at work.

Another guy in Texas has a full grown male buffalo he brings in the house and wrestles with. He acts as though he has taught this buffalo not to cross a certain line, and has kicked the buffalo in the snout and whacked him upside the head with wood to let him know he’s getting a little rough. But the owner is really kind of smug about it, as though city folk can’t appreciate his ultimate training skills.

I was in a group that used young, half-grown, yearling buffalo for cutting horse practice. These buffalo were fairly wild, but were used to being fed and run through chutes by people. Again, these critters weren’t nearly the size of a full grown buffalo, but they did have horns, and knew exactly where those horns were at all times. (They’re fond of head butting and hooking.)

I saw a half grown buffalo slam a full grown stallion square in the chest, and lift that horse off his feet, over backwards, and proceed to drill it and his rider into the ground.

You don’t fuck with buffalo. You don’t bring them in your house. You don’t wrestle with them.