Emmets ahoy

[bunn]

Overheard today:

"OH GOD!!!! NOW THERE's A BULL!!!!"  (very shrill)
"No, it's OK, it's just a cow.  Just walk past" (authoritative, but somewhat nervously)
"Oh, OK a cow?   I'll carry the dog. "

Let's examine the evidence:

Actually he is an absolute gentleman and really one could not hope to meet a nicer bovine.   But really, how could anyone think that is a cow?

Comments

[lil-shepherd.livejournal.com]

Perhaps they've been confused by that Disney cartoon where all the bulls have udders?

[inzilbeth-liz.livejournal.com]

Lol! Actually if there isn't a ring in the nose, it's amazing how many people have no idea!

[philmophlegm.livejournal.com]

I thought that was a Boddingtons advert? Or is it both?

[seasight.livejournal.com]

lol!

[lil-shepherd.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen the Bod advert.

Barnyard is infamous.

[king-pellinor.livejournal.com]

Person A: "It's bull! Helpp!"

Person B: *Thinks* Yes, it is. But so what? "No, no, it's just a cow, we're fine. Keep walking" ;-)

[bunn.livejournal.com]

One of the most entertaining jobs on the Oldies Club rehoming line is explaining to people how to tell if their male dogs have been neutered. It's amazing how many people have difficulty recognising testicles.

[bunn.livejournal.com]

Don't get me started on cartoon bovines and their inappropriate sexual characteristics. GRRRRRRR

[bunn.livejournal.com]

Yes, very likely, but that makes it all the more entertaining.

I did wonder whether to run after them and bring up the unwisdom of carrying a dog around cows, but I knew this particular pair of beasts are old and not at all interested in trampling dogs. Anyway, I had the hounds with me and they'd already made it quite clear that Fifi with her giant goggling eyes and absurd squashed nose was far too delicately bred to mix with my bunch, which are probably evil, small-dog-killing monsters.

[lil-shepherd.livejournal.com]

To be fair, with something like Scooby-Doo, few people will notice the absence of the... er... dog's bollocks, any more than they notice the lack of bulge in the skin-tight costumes of male superheroes. And with the puritan nature of American society, leaving off sexual organs that the juniors - indeed, a lot of the seniors - won't notice even in Real Life unless their attention is drawn to them is not so bad.

I wouldn't really have objected so much to things like Barnyard if the sexual organs simply hadn't been there. It's giving animals the wrong sexual characteristics that really annoys me.

[helflaed.livejournal.com]

To be fair, I'm so used to seeing neutered cats that it took me a moment to figure out what those furry pea sized things at the rear end of my friend's stud cat were...

[endlessrarities.livejournal.com]

He should have got the head down and charged to make a point.

Anyway, aren't cows meant to be just as mad as bulls when they put their mind to it? I don't really trust any of them, I'm afraid. Especially when they get into one of their frisky moods.

[bunn.livejournal.com]

That bull is far too cuddly to charge at anyone! He's lived on the hill surrounded by people and dogs on all the footpaths for years. He's quite elderly and extremely sedate and likes to have his ears scratched. Occasionally he goes to sleep on a footpath and we have to tiptoe around him. :-D

The young cows with calves to protect and youngsters that like to tear around in mobs are the ones I watch out for.