I so hope they got him some help, wherever he was. I felt so sorry for that big guy. Not one of the guys reporting that story even talked about him - just the risk to the golfers and what a close call that was yada yada. I get that and I would be scared to death but gosh, newspeople, he's an animal and he's got to live somewhere and if you build golf courses in areas right where they live, you have to expect gators will come on the course. But at least the reporters could have just once said "Poor guy, wonder what's wrong with his leg?" or something to show they cared just a little he was disabled.

Well, well said.

Thanks.

I also can't no longer watch shows that kill animals for sport. Sometimes when I am hugging Brandi or Zoey I am actually hugging every animal that is being tortured. It hurts so bad sometimes when I hear of any animal being killed or tortured at the hands of humans.

You know what I hate? I watched horror movies (my favorite genre) and almost in every horror movies, the family pet is always the first to get killed. That bothers the crap out of me. I so online 10 species that would go extinct within the next few years and every one of them were going to be extinct because of humans.

I'm sorry you had to see an animal treated badly. It does hurt to see and to know. :(

I know exactly how you feel, I can't imagine hurting any animal. There are a lot of wildlife pests around her, but could not bring myself to harm any of the, I eat fish, but don't like fishing. About 10 years ago we went with some friends in FL, I think it was my first time fishing, I hooked a barracuda about 10 lbs (I think) in the eye. My friends are like oh we don't want that we will throw it back. So they took it off the hook and threw it back, I started crying like a baby, for cripes sakes it was bigger than my yorkie, all I could think about was what if my pup got hooked on something. Everyone is like what, who cries over hooking a fish, it can't feel anything, I was like how do you know. That was 10 years and I have not fished since, probably never will because I just can't see the point of putting a hook into something just for the heck of it then throwing it back.

I don't know what happened with the cow, but they are beautiful soulful animals. This make me me think about the move Water for Elephants. So many people were going on like it was such a beautiful move, to me it was downright painful and disturbing to watch, and I was so sorry I did.

oh my gosh me too! That movie upset me so much.
Genea

I show the movie "food Inc" to my students each year. I will not buy from symthfields ever!!!! I really could do without eatting meat... it bothers me so very much.

They aren't killing for sport, they're killing to make a living.

I think it's OK to get upset over "stuff". On the 23rd I saw two foxes while taking my sister home. On the 24th, I saw two small reddish down bodies dead in the road just a block from where I saw the foxes.
I was o upset while taking her home and coming back. I hate to stop and get them out of the road. They were in the shoulder, but I wanted to get them in the grass where they wouldn't get hurt more by cars, which is stupid, because they're dead, how can they get hurt MORE, but that was what I was thinking and how I was feeling.
It wasn't the foxes though, it was two puggles, which somehow made it better and worse at the same time.
:(
So I know how you feel. Even if it's a cow. Even if it's an opossum, or a chicken, or a wild boar for that matter.

I watched a movie called vegucated and there is an entire segment showing how they, in the most horrible cases, cull the animals.
It broke my heart to see it, but then I told myself they are raised for slaughter, so wipe your tears and hug your dogs really hard

But they don't have to enjoy killing for a living that much, do they? As if it were just nothing to take that life? And what do they do with the gators they kill for a living? Do some people eat them or just use their skin?

I just don't see how in the world people work in slaughterhouses. I know they have to have a kind of different mentality and think of them only as meat but still, how do you kill over and over without it getting to you if you work there?

Rhonda, what happened to that cow you are worrying about? Was there another thread about it - some posters seem to know the story. Is someone neglecting or mistreating it and you had to turn them in? If so, good for you!

Living on a farm is hard. We raise beef cattle and my DH takes them to the auction market to sell. I have only went with him a few times. Once I had bottle fed a baby calf after the mother passed away giving birth. I was so attached to that baby and he was attached to me.
I had to go with my husband to the market because that 6 month old bull would only follow me. Naive as I am after we unloaded him, I made the comment that I hoped he had a good life with whoever bought him.
I wish my husband had lied to me but he told me he would be going to a buyer who just raises the babies to later slaughter :( I never went to the market with him again after that and cried all the way home.
Even though we raise beef cattle we have never slaughtered one for our own use. Neither me or my husband could eat something we had raised from the day it was born.
I hope the little calf is ok, but my husband said if he was stepped on and paralyzed there wasn't much hope for him. :(

What living is that? Who needs to eat alligator meat.

That\'s got to be a tough life and I\'m sure you all treat your farm animals humanely and not like some of those shows on TV or in the movies. I remember in that film "Old Yeller", that character Tommy Kirk played talked to and about their few farm animals so awful and was really rough with them - as he was to Yeller at first, calling him names and dumb or things like that. And yikes, the way he treated that little lamb that was hung up near that cave where Yeller was attacked by the rabid animal! Rough as could be with that little thing. That\'s the way all people used to be with all kinds of animals, dogs included. And many, many still are!

But for a world of meat-lovers, we have to have people that raise farm animals that produce meat. It\'s the ones who do it humanely and with kindness that you love to hear about and wish we had more of. At least give the animal its best life while it is here and not one of misery, as so many meat producing farms and ranches seem to do these days keeping them in those restricting pens and devices where they get no exercise, no life. It\'s awful when an animal is raised like a plant, living in one spot, watered and fed.