Subject: Re: * Colorado cattle mute
From: titan@sys6626.bison.mb.ca (Titanium Knight)
Comments: useless sack of protoplasm
Message-Id: <V6yP5B7w165w@sys6626.bison.mb.ca>
Date: Sun, 06 Jun 93 06:01:54 CST
Organization: System 6626 BBS, Winnipeg Manitoba Canada

Message to: mcgrew@dropout.rutgers.edu (Charles Mcgrew)
Subject: Re: * Colorado cattle mute
 
> Hi,
 
Hey.
 
>  Could you send me the cattle mutilation file as well?  As you
> may know, I provide an Internet anonymous FTP site for ufo stuff.
> If'n you have any files you want to put there, please send 'em!
 
Unfortunately I don't have access to anonymous FTP.  If you want to
archive my messages and put them on FTP, feel free to do so! (I don't
write the articles anyway) 
 
Here's the article you requested:
 
Number: 505 
  Subj: Cattle Mutilation in Colorado
  Date: 01 Jun 93  22:08:00 
  From: Jerry Woody                      
    To: All                              
 
Odyssey News Wire--
 
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|MUSTANG - Owners said no cause can be found for the two     |
|mutilated black cattle, which were found dead in fields     |
|about 60 miles apart, followins a full moon.                |
|The cattle, in Canadian and Blaine counties, had their      |
|sex organs removed.                                         |
|Mustang Police Chief Ron Lewis said his office              |
|recently investigated the mutilation of a 1,100- pound      |
|Angus cow. Blaine County Undersheriff Kent Sexton said      |
|his office was called to the ranch of Galen Slagell near    |
|Hydro the same morning to investigate the mutilation of     |
|a 70-pound Angus steer. Although Lewis said he is not       |
|versed on cults, he thinks some type of cult                |
|celebration that coincides with Passover might be           |
|responsible for the mutilations.  Lewis and Sexton          |
|said their investigations turned up some similarities. No   |
|blood was found at the scene of either mutilation, and      |
|Lewis and Sexton said both cattle appeared to be "drained   |
|of blood." The interior and exterior sex organs, tongues    |
|and one eye from each animal had been removed. The cow      |
|found in Canadian County was missing her left ear and       |
|a patch of hide over her ribs on the right side.  The       |
|cow's owner, who asked not to be identified, said he        |
|wonders what "idiots" would mutilate an animal, and he      |
|would like to have the cow's death solved. He said he       |
|checked his cattle the evening before the mutilation. "I    |
|had just worked them and I knew I didn't have any sick      |
|ones. When I went to check them, I saw her and I knew she   |
|was dead by the way she was laying." He said he was         |
|angry at first because he thought someobe had shot her      |
|and left her for the coyotes. A closer look showed him      |
|the mutilation was not the work of coyotes. There were      |
|some droPs of blood on the ground, but no blood came from   |
|any of the wounds. He said this was odd because when        |
|someone shoots a cow, a death struggle occurs and there     |
|is a lot of blood. He also said the cow was in an           |
|area of dirt and there were no tracks, neither human or     |
|animal around her.                                          |
|"When I walked up, I left tracks," he said.                 |
|He said he checked the animal carefully and could not       |
|find a cause of death. The cow's death will continue to     |
|be a problem. Her 4-month-old calf, which would not         |
|normally be weaned for another two months, now will not     |
|grow as rapidly, and the cow had been bred and was about    |
|two months pregnant. Undersheriff Sexton said it had        |
|rained before the steer was found near Hydro and the        |
|ground was soft. "There were no prints,'i Sexton said. He   |
|said he has been around cattle all his life, and "this      |
|wasn't coyotes." Ranch owner Slagell agreed: "I don't       |
|know of any coyotes that carry knives." Sexton said         |
|veterinarian Tim Lowry also couldn't find a bullet hole.    |
|"We're baffled." he said. Although Lowry said, "There       |
|definitely was a human hand involved," Slagell said he      |
|was still not ruling out the possibility that the           |
|mutilation could have been done by vultures. : But Blaine   |
|County Assistant District attorney George Burnett said      |
|the steer "obviously was surgically cut ... If someone      |
|saw something, it may help us solve the case."              |
 
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