Mystery of Cattle Mutilation

[Debi]

Retired Government Trapper Reflects on Cattle Mutilation Phenomenon | Coast to Coast AM

A retired government worker who spent decades fighting animal depredation in the Rocky Mountains recently reflected on a phenomenon that puzzled him throughout his career: cattle mutilations.

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[Roffin]

I sure hope that whichever evil creature or human who did such evil to the cattle for decades didn't take their time to torture the cattle slowly before the final killing cut.

 

[Duke]

Would be useful to see a disciplined, scientific study looking at cattle mutilations as a function of a nation's/region's number/type/size of apex or large predators. For example, neither Ireland nor New Zealand have any large land predators. Is it a coincidence there are virtually no reports of cattle mutilations in either country? Conversely, are there nations/regions where both cattle and large predators are relatively common that have no/few mutilation claims?

I've also long wondered about how cattle are insured, particularly in the US? If a farmer claims to have found a dead cow under seemingly mysterious circumstances, can that farmer file an insurance claim and be paid the value of that cow? And if so, how is that value set? Say, for example, cattle (sell) prices are down due to things like overproduction, economic hardships, market fluctuations, etc., will a farmer make more money on the insured v. market value of a cow?

Finally, I'm curious why none of the more militant animal rights activists/groups like PETA have never gotten involved in the cattle mutilation claims?

 

[Debi]

animal rights activists/groups like PETA have never gotten involved in the cattle mutilation claims?

Because there is no one to go after. These groups need a target to protest, and I'm pretty sure they are not going to go after aliens or high strangeness.

 

[Duke]

Because there is no one to go after. These groups need a target to protest, and I'm pretty sure they are not going to go after aliens or high strangeness.

They do more than protest, they have animal cruelty imvestigators.

"PETA's Cruelty Investigations Department sends undercover investigators into facilities like laboratories, farms, slaughterhouses, and clothing industries to document animal abuse."

While the have no arrest or prosecutory authority, they do gather evidence to provide for prosecution. Ironically, the one noted cattle mutilation case in NZ back several years ago was solved when a NZ animal rights group sent in undercover investigators who videoed cattle being abused, including being beaten with metal pipes by farm employees. I'll spare the animal lovers here the really gory details beyond that, but suffice it to say what they found would not sound out of place in 1990s LMH interview.

 

[Debi]

They do more than protest, they have animal cruelty imvestigators.

"PETA's Cruelty Investigations Department sends undercover investigators into facilities like laboratories, farms, slaughterhouses, and clothing industries to document animal abuse."

While the have no arrest or prosecutory authority, they do gather evidence to provide for prosecution. Ironically, the one noted cattle mutilation case in NZ back several years ago was solved when a NZ animal rights group sent in undercover investigators who videoed cattle being abused, including being beaten with metal pipes by farm employees. I'll spare the animal lovers here the really gory details beyond that, but suffice it to say what they found would not sound out of place in 1990s LMH interview.

I guess what I'm saying here is they have to know where to target and look for abuse. Hard to do when this appears to be so random.

 

[Lynne]

I guess what I'm saying here is they have to know where to target and look for abuse. Hard to do when this appears to be so random.

I would also add that the remains of the cattle are so strange in that the normal predation and insect feeding doesn’t happen. The body becomes a bone rack for a hide. Also I don’t think insurance covers it. I know the ranchers at skinwalker lost so much they finally had to sell.