aww

I once saw a video of a dashcam. This guy is driving out in the farmlands, but the roads were twisty like a pretzal made by a drunk guy. And this driver is a real piece of shit. He's doing like 70 down a twisty road that he can't see the next turns sometimes. Well he takes this turn real hard at 70, but immediately after the turn, the road turns the OPPOSITE direction almost immediately. At those speeds, and with those hills, his car goes flying over a fence, into a private farm, lands just before a cow, but the momentum carried his car into hitting the cow. I checked the frame by frame gps display. He hit the cow still at 50mph even after hitting the ground first.

This cow goes down HARD. He let out this little whimper noise. The description said the driver died. I ASSUME the hit cow died. But right after it happened, this one cow comes trotting over. Kinda slowly at first, and then with great emergency once it kind of grasped what had just happened. Then she starts moo'ing like crazy, and suddenly dozens of angry cows come running over the hill. They all surrounded the hit cow, and the first cow is just nuzzling it's head with her own head. I know it sounds crazy, but I swear the emotion there was like the first cow was trying to wake up the hit cow. Then this herd of cows starts angrily mooing at the car. I swear it was like they understood that the car was at fault, and they were pissed. They started running at the car, bashing it with their bodies. The guy inside, was either already dead, or died later with EMS. I'm not sure which.

I just know it was like these cows were a community, mourning the dead, and angry at the killer. And they were COWS!!!

Trust and love are powerful bonds.

So, my parents had this dachshund. Dachshunds are dumb, and will literally pick a fight with anything (and then run and hide behind you.)

One time I was dog sitting- Tootsie was just a puppy, it was wonderful weather for late spring so I went camping, taking her with.

Gonna go fly fishing and catch breakfast, was waiting for the sun to come up with my coffee and this bear comes up the opposite side of the creek.

Tootsie being the dumbass, starts yapping.

The bear looks at her. Its expression is “you know you’re not even a snack, right?”,

It looks at me. “You know she’s not even a snack?”

My expression is “I know, I know. Shut up tootsie. Yer a snack!”

The bear gives this sort of shrug I took as, “Okay. Just do you know.” And moved off down the stream.

Yeah that was more just me reaching for what was close at hand, not like I'm in a place where I'm likely to run into a polar bear or a russian bear

And marmot. Never disagree with a marmot.

Because rodent.

Pretty sure it was actually food scraps that got ‘em. Scritches came later.

Animals (cows in this case) feel pain, fear, grief and so on. Plants don't. We can survive just fine without murdering millions of sentient animals.

Killing dogs and eating their meat is animal abuse. Doing the same to cows isn't. Quite hypocritical if you ask me.

Thank you for the post. The mental gymnastics that people go through to justify murdering these animals is crazy

Make that two.

Awww did we hurt your feelings?