Hi Rock,Originally Posted by rockgazer69
The Amish are basically very good people. Like any segment of Humanity you have your good and your bad though.
You can NEVER TRUST a bull but when you get them when they are young you can have a good time with them and they can be very receptive to being treated kindly by Humans but they still have their naturalness about them and you MUST WATCH WITH BOTH EYES ALL THE TIME. Especially as they grow older. That is just how it is.
We have to feed him with a bottle now and he is just like a baby. You can talk to him and he understands your meaning of kindness towards him. His eyes are something else. Kinda like the eyes of a deer. The dog likes playing with him and I think they are going to be friends - for awhile - until the bull becomes older.
The "strange and wonderful minds of children..." OH BUT YOU SURE HAVE TO WATCH your children around the animals and the animals around your children - they - BOTH - do not really KNOW. Especially with some. The goose makes me laugh - BIGTIME - it seems as if the goose RUNS the show - OWNS the farm and everyone else WORKS for it. IT RULES. And can be VERY FUNNY too. I am turning up the ground for a vegetable garden today and I KNOW I will have a lot of ONlookers especially the cats - they get it in their minds YOU are doing all this FOR THEM. And I LOVE IT. Later as you begin to get results and you are pulling weeds or bringing in the harvest the cats will BE right there thinking you are getting something FOR THEM. And you DO share. I LOVE all the help I get. Even in the flower garden - they are everywhere you least expect them to be as if they ARE GOD'S Guardian Angels for you - ALL the animals - especially the cows.
You know, as with anything, we LEARN - that is, people CAN TEACH anger and hatred in animals. I have seen animals that were so DAMN kind and REALLY CARED for human beings BECAUSE they were treated kindly and I have seen them REALLY MEAN because they were TREATED MEAN by "human beings"....
OH MY GOD I have to LAUGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Rex!!!!! I can just imagine it!!!!!!!
We have a cat that WILL RIDE on TOP of the tractor when we go out into the field and spread manure. EVERY CHANCE it gets. As soon as it hears the tractor being started up it runs right over to it and jumps right up on top and rides... It WANTS to ride ON TOP and RIDES the WHOLE trip from barn to field and back ON THE TRACTOR just like you are taking it for a ride and it LOVES IT. It sure looks "stupid" on top the tractor riding around the farm.... DAMN I think this farm doesn't really belong to me but to the animals. I just "live and work" here FOR THEM... I LOVE IT>>>>>
The kids are just as "nuts" as the animals - in fact I think they PLAN on "driving me nuts" ON PURPOSE. They seem to work hand-in-hand. Talk about LAUGHING - EVERYDAY!!!! There is NEVER a dull moment - or lack of TRULY WONDERFUL MOMENTS!!!! WHAT A LIFE!!!!!!!!!!!! God is here ALL AROUND ALL THE TIME!!!!! I think He laughs JUST AS HARD...
Ya GOTTA get and have your own farm - you will NEVER be sorry you did!!!!
Take Care, John H.




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