anyone else see the connection between asnd and this article from the ottawa sun?
CALGARY (CP)
Ottawa Sun
George Giersch thinks there's something ominous about the mangled cow
carcass
he found last month on his farm in northeastern British Colombia.
"I've never seen something quite like this," Giersch said of the animal,
which he
found lying in a pool of blood with his tongue missing, half it's face
stripped to the
bone and a deep slash to it's chest.
Giersch is convinced that what he describes as an incision to the cow's jaw
was to
precise to be caused by a predator. He's also suspicious because there were
no tracks
in the surrounding snow.
A conservation officer who investigated was also baffled. Giersch said and
suggested
he leave the carcass for a few days. No animal came near until the fifth
day, when
birds began to land on it.
"That's odd. It's a large coyote community here," he said of the area near
Dawson Creek.
Giersch is one of hundreds of wester Canadian and American farmers who have
called
police and other investigators about strange cattle deaths in the last few
years. Similar
reports swept North America in the late 1970s, but they dwindled
unexplainably in the
1980s.
Those who encounter mangled cattle offer a number of possible culprits:
animal predators,
cults, aliens or deranged people out for a lark.
The RCMP and Alberta Officials have concluded the cattle are dying natural
deaths
and becoming food for predators.
But Fern Belzil, a farmer in the St Paul area of notheastern Alberta and
part-time
mutilation investigator, insists that most of the 50 cattle killings
reported by Alberta
and Saskatchewan farmers in the last three years weren't done by animals.
He predicts
more reports will surface in the spring and summer, when such deaths are
traditionally more prevalent.
"I've seen a lot of things that are really mind boggling," Belzil said.
"Some of these things
you wonder if it can be done with our technology."
In most cases, the dead cattle had been bled, and the eyes, lips and
tongues were cut out
with surgical precision, Belzil said
That's also how Laura Afdahi described the mutilated cow she found last
June on her farm
last June in the Pincher Creek area of southern Alberta. Some of her
Charolais cow's
teeth were missing, as were the sex organs and teats.
"I can't tell you how sick I felt when I looked at it," Afdahi said, adding
the coyotes
and magpies had no interest in feasting on the carcass.
Afdahl, who had a similar mutilation on her farm 10 years ago, suspects
cults to be the
culprits, because both times a mark resembling a large M was cut into the
cows." I believe
it was done with a lazer of some sort."
RCMP Cpl. Tim Woods, a livestock investigator for northern Alberta, said
forensic
lab analysis of four dead cattle last summer concluded that gas bloated the
animals'
stomach and ripped the skin.
Woods believes the animals died naturally, and were mauled by predators,
who usually
begin their feasts with the animals' soft parts.
"I don't support the alien theory at all." said Woods. "And cults-- I
haven't seen anything
that would indicate one."
Doc speaking here; I was shocked to see this in the papers since we so
seldom here
of this or sightings here in Ottawa. I would be interested if anyone has
any idea
has to what they think is causing this. Myself I have no idea but do not
think it is
done by animal predators. |
