Damn Haitians.

Our shop cat has to sleep on or in every vehicle or piece of equipment that comes in the shop. He has an hot engine addiction and I’m pretty sure he can see in infrared because he’s always on the warmest spot. Luckily he knows better than to climb into the engine compartments.

I wish I enjoyed life half as much as a dog.

Just fucking embargo Hungary until he’s gone, and make sure Hungarians know how to end it.

He’s a speed bump that needs to be drove around.

This is starting to look like a “get a second term by bombing the shit out of something” preparation. I’m almost behind it if it means we don’t see a Trump win, but it’s certainly predictable as fuck.

Bison are quite a lot less feed efficient and a fucking pain in the ass to work with since you can’t get in with them like cattle, or work with horses. Treating them when they’re sick is a good way to get hurt or killed.

But yah, it tastes better. So does elk, but that’s another species that’s better left wild.

I farm right next to (within 10km) pristine forest stretching for a few thousand km in a couple directions. I’ve seen plenty of wolves, but they never really come into the farming areas, and even if they do, the cattle aren’t very concerned. You have a couple hundred head together in a field, they aren’t worried about wolves, cougar or coyotes. They’d stomp them into a paste.

We have neighbors that bitch and moan about the coyotes “killing calves”. I’ve seen plenty of coyotes chewing on dead calves, but I feel it’s pretty unlikely to have been them that killed it, they’re just cleaning up a late miscarriage that might have walked around for a while looking for a place to die. It’s almost always calves I’ve looked at and thought they weren’t going to last long.

And there are more than enough deer, moose and elk around for these predators to go after that they would much rather take anyway, rather than risk an angry bunch of momma cows mopping them up.

Frankly, if the price of having a healthy wildlife population means losing a few sick calves to them and a couple tonnes of grain to deer, I’m fine with it. That ecosystem benefits us in a lot of ways.