I do love the Sunday Strip, not least because we get your 'farm news'! Gizmo is wonderful: if you can't smile when seeing him there's something wrong with you!
The cartoon comparing US and English expressions: alas, so very true, to my shame.
As for not putting fairy lights on palm trees: OMG! Where are this palm trees and is the local council still answering their phones and emails??
I live on timber property in Oregon. I put solar fairy lights on many of my fir trees, not just at Christmas. They light up all over the mountain side when dark comes. I have one palm tree, it was the easiest to drape with lights.
Tragic story of your horse Corbeau. Very sorry. It shows what true dedication you both have in taking care of your animals. Many couldn’t handle that and continue on.
From the time we wake, it’s easy to get focused on what is wrong in our life. What we don’t have or how big our problems are. We get so busy and so stressed we can lose focus on the gift of today. If we’re not careful we can take for granted our family our friends our health or our opportunities. We can easily lose sight of all the good things in our life. We can lose the right perspective. Being unhappy and miserable with one’s life is a choice we make as is being happy. They say a grateful heart has no room for discouragement. We need to learn to appreciate and be grateful for what we have.
As a kid my Uncle Ben would take me to work, he introduced me to many different trades. Many years had gone by and I had gone to college. After a couple of jobs I opened my small business. Every now and then my uncle Ben would come to work with me and help me out, cutting lumber and things. Eventually he had grown old, his back and his body were hurting him and I would go to see how he was doing. One day I went there and was complaining how stressed I was. I couldn’t keep up with all of the jobs and the new customer calls. No matter how hard I worked it was never enough. I just wanted to get through this time of my life I was very stressed out. My uncle looked at me and said I wish I could be in your shoes. I would do anything to get up off this bed, drive to get a coffee and do a hard days work. Life seems to have passed me by so quickly if I could go back to where you are right now I’d give up everything I have. He said don’t be so willing to wish for getting through this time in your life.
After our conversation I realized how being able to get out of bed, open your eyes and see, smelling the coffee cooking and doing a hard days work isn’t so ordinary. We should always be grateful for all that we have and are able to do. It’s all in our perspective of life.
I left uncle Ben’s house with a new attitude. I guess I realized how lucky I was to be able to do my job, have a home, have a wife that cares about me and have family and friends. It’s sometimes easy with all the stresses in life to lose focus on all of the blessings God has given us. Happy Sunday!J.Goodrich
Thank you for the wisdom you impart in your posts. It’s definitely needed in my life, and encouraging. And yes, it’s a beautiful Sunday! Could not go to church today, as my body does not always cooperate with my desires, but your post was “The word of the Day” for me. Thanks James Goodrich!
Amen James! Wonderful words, & yes, sometimes our lives can be stressful, & we sometimes get wrapped up in our work & don’t spend enough time counting our Blessings. Your Uncle sounds like a great person, & teacher as well! It is nice to have family members that teach the youngster’s a trade, or other life skills! What an honor for you & probably your family as well!
Thank you for taking the time to share this J. Goodrich ~ Such a beautiful meditation this morning with my coffee. We took care of both of my husbands parents and my mother. At one time they all lived with us. I have experienced “stressed out for sure”. Once when I took my mother to the garden in her wheelchair to pick roses that she carried in her lap she said “I just wish we could squeeze out a little more time.”
She passed shortly after and I never forgot that statement.
I’m grateful for the time we had and I’ve found it true that the deeper bonding comes from the labor of taking care of someone.
Thank You Darla,D, I also took care of both of my parents until they passed. I was lucky to have my sister that greatly helped also. My mother in law has moved in with us now. I think we all need to balance our lives. Take time to appreciate the people around us. Every day is a gift. We shouldn’t have to wait for holidays to be thankful or give gifts or give a card saying I love you. This is something we should try to do every day in some manner, even with a compliment or helping someone that has a burden. It’s amazing how people remember simple acts of kindness even from a stranger.
Gizmo is foot loose and fancy free. Enjoying life! I like the evolution of the caduceus! Created by the Harvard and Wharton MBA's that now run Big Pharma! Local bias paper ran a major article on how RFK Jr. is not qualified to run HHS. Durbin expressed his guided medical opinion confirming this. I guess Alex Azar who guided the Covid con should be recalled! Time for Durbin to wake up and not be under the spell of Big Pharma.
What does not get much attention is,how all the fed intrusion into medicine has led to the expansion of the field of hosp admin which I believe was virtually nonexistent until the passage of medicare. Now those bozos are fully in charge and making big bucks
Completely agree with you here! Retired last year after 45 years working as an RN in open heart surgery and it was so different back in the day. Now I’ve talked to administration about problems and they are not interested in investigating problematic doctors and procedures that are borderline ethical (medical ethics has REALLY not kept up with medicine). Even our CEO, who was an excellent vascular surgeon, immediately adopted administration speak when he accepted the position. Between insurance and corporate it is impossible to advocate for your patients
And speaking of medicare (which I just signed up for)…why would you devise an insurance system for elderly individuals that is soooo convoluted that I believe that you will never find out which policy is a “best fit “ for you. Of course it is predominantly based on prescriptions with a footnote emphasis on fitness or diet. I really don’t know if someone will be able to unscramble this egg but I hope the new administration does something to help out.
Gee, do you think there could be some connection between the caduceus evolution and the United Health CEO hit this week? Their litigation record includes a fair amount of mendacity and deception to the general public particularly in the Medicare Advantage segment of their enterprise.
Well Bonnie you were well ahead of me, then. I had no clue, now you got me going down the 2nd rabbit hole . . . asclepius's rod. Heck that has a dang snake around it. . .
I'm not a doctor but, if so, I wouldn't choose either of these things.
How about a heart held in a fragile grasp with two hands in offering upwards? Perhaps just a bit more appropriate to combine with the Hippocrates oath of "First do no harm."
Yes, so much has changed in the health care field now days, & just trying to find a doctor, (or a NP in my case), that is on my “insurance carrier list”, has been difficult. But, the money that is made for carriers, is extremely profitable! The fees charged for services, and/or medical items/supplies used in hospitals or Urgent Care facilities is so expensive! I’m not surprised that someone took another’s life - someone that made so much money in the health care industry of course; but, that is not a reason to kill for. I’m sure the truth may come out as to why this happened, but, it may be a long wait for the truth. Very sad.
It all really started going downhill when the hospitals (corporations) started buying out the MD’s practices Now they are owned by corporate healthcare which is in bed with big pharma, big insurance and the government. This doesn’t make for the best care. You basically have to go outside the system, pay out of pocket and find an independent physician. Lots of MD’s have given up the rat race and practice independently. It costs, but ultimately it will keep you healthier.
Ned, gonna disagree - what we need is more "for profit" health care, less gummint interference, more private competition. If we want to subsidize HC for "the poor," etc., then provide them with a voucher for basic insurance to which they can add to themself or thru a 3rd party for Cadillac plans, etc.
Once you take the profit out of HC you’ll end up with maybe one MRI per state, in a large city of course, and the least capable or most pretentious going into medicine.
It was comic to see Fauci sitting on Santa's knees....with Santa saying he was a bad boy...when few in the world could be more corrupt... pushing policies and vaxes that destroyed multi-multitudes. The other one with the names of three of the angriest women on TV with the names: Whoopi, Sunny and Joy....was memorable, too. Life on the farm has its bad moments and its good. It is devastating, when you lose an animal you love, like your percheron. .
Very sad to hear about Corbeau. Losing a beloved member of the family is a heartbreak unlike any other. For me, it is the very worst part of being blessed with and truly loving our animals.
All of them are So funny except the pardoning of Fauci and all the insider trading money launderers. Thank God Trump will have Air Force 1 back soon. Palm Trees were hilarious … God keep everyone safe through the transition, especially the silly birds and beautiful beasts.
It seems not so long ago that Boeing was universally lauded as a top-flight company.
Senator Josh Hawley's exchange with Boeing's former CEO, occurring this past June in a Senate committee hearing, is probably still the stuff of nightmares for the poor rich executive. Not pretty for him. At all.
This article explains how state AGs can prosecute the likes of Anthony Fauci and many others, even if Santa Joe pardons them on federal crimes:
Criminality and Financial Incentives Concerning Hospital COVID Deaths: Why a Presidential Pardon Can't Shield Fauci from State Prosecution | The Gateway Pundit | by Guest Contributor
A little credit might have been nice... but not really expected.
My X post on Dec 5 lays it out - and many AGs responded that they would consider it.
"Manslaughter cases are generally prosecuted under state law, as states have their own criminal codes defining and penalizing manslaughter.
It would be nice to see @KenPaxtonTX, @AGAndrewBailey
(both of whom I admire greatly) or some other brave state attorney general, bring involuntary manslaughter charges against Fauci for the deaths due to G-of-F work that created the SARS-CoV-2 virus - as he is directly responsible due to funding these projects.
If any state AG is interested, I would be glad to offer my services as an expert witness for such a lawsuit.
State law and prosecution is considered outside of a president's ability to pardon."
last night around 8 pm, dark, we heard our cat whining and opened the deck door. . . he had scaled the cedar roof support post with his claws and was up there on the roof, stuck! His name is Batty for a reason.
Start with your handsome pair. Checked my photos and have a nice 2014 shot of 6 gorgeous black percherons showing at the HoCo fair. But you arent driving. Darn. Your loss echos. Awful to loose one, particularly that way.
Gizmo is a trip. One has to wonder what is going on in bird brains. Thanks much for creating and sharing!
Read an ET article this am on an extremely sophisticated system, that the CCP has been distributing widely (including Argentina) to substantially enhance farming.
Your day sounds delightful. 🐎
OFF TOPIC:
Was able to get in touch with Shelley via a comment. Had a good thanksgiving with son. Christmas decorations are up. Says she's not receiving Malone SS posts, ? just comments? Said she does miss us and will keep checking for Malone posts.
I checked the Substack web site and they list 2 options she can try. One that specifically relates to her problem and the other let's one email re the issue. So we'll see if that helps.
Glad to hear about Shelley. Was worried about her too. Has she logged on to Who is Robt. Malone on the internet? I have that bookmarked and occasionally when I suspect am missing issues I go to the bookmark.
Merry Christmas to the Malone’s and thank you for everything that you do. I’m not a horse person but have many friends that do so what I’m gonna say might be somewhat ignorant, but is there not way to be able to nurture a horse back after a broken leg?
I was wondering the same. All mammals seem to recover from broken bones with proper care, though it can be prohibitively expensive.
Finding ways to save our precious equine friends from euthanasia after breaks and other mishaps — which appear so common with horses — would be a wonderful area of research.
Long time ago I wondered the same, took a minute to scan Dr Google and it is possible but there are a lot of factors involved in its success - most important 🤷♀️ is if it’s a clean break, intact skin (infection) and the horse’s nature. A messy/compound fracture is probably not possible.
I got to wondering about this recently myself - came across a scene in my garden a few weeks ago: was digging up potatoes, the last variety out of 9 or 10 and I came across what I thought was a dead rodent - the tail end. Poking around it turned out to be about 10-12" of the lower portion of a deer’s leg, including the hoof, hoof side down. Since I haven’t been actively trapping invasive rodents (gophers/ground squirrels) there are areas riddled with tunnels. The guys in my small group think I’m crazy but I’ve been wondering; could a deer have been spooked by a neighbor (dog 🤷♀️), run helter skelter thru the garden, stepped into/through one of these tunnels and cleanly snapped off its foreleg? The guys say it was buried by a dog (orientation is wrong) or dropped by a hawk/eagle.
My concern is that come spring/summer and I can begin dealing with the weed forest that use to be my garden I’ll find a deer carcass in there.
I would guess, no. No chance deer broke it off and. . . left it in the hole. Likely is that a dog buried it after scavenging a gut / carcass pile from a local hunter's kill.
"The purpose of the mainstream media is not to inform you, but to conform you."
- Ned B.
And they don't call their news "programs" for nothing!
Sticker Dude to turn that into a bumper sticker.
Most astute observation Ned.
Thank you, Mark. The quip is a bit long for a bumper sticker, but I do have a similar sentiment on a 4x6 postcard: https://nedb.substack.com/p/mainstream-media-invisaligns-your
Amen. Thank you Ned.
As Jordan Peterson said
“Indoctrinate.”
Perhaps we don’t need a new version of ourself.
I do love the Sunday Strip, not least because we get your 'farm news'! Gizmo is wonderful: if you can't smile when seeing him there's something wrong with you!
The cartoon comparing US and English expressions: alas, so very true, to my shame.
As for not putting fairy lights on palm trees: OMG! Where are this palm trees and is the local council still answering their phones and emails??
Happy 2nd Advent Sunday - two down, two to go ...
That would be Florida!
We all decorate our palms here.
I'm sure it looks very pretty - but once 'that' image was put in my mind, I can't unseen it ...
An Emu's gotta do what an Emu's gotta do...
I live on timber property in Oregon. I put solar fairy lights on many of my fir trees, not just at Christmas. They light up all over the mountain side when dark comes. I have one palm tree, it was the easiest to drape with lights.
Tragic story of your horse Corbeau. Very sorry. It shows what true dedication you both have in taking care of your animals. Many couldn’t handle that and continue on.
From the time we wake, it’s easy to get focused on what is wrong in our life. What we don’t have or how big our problems are. We get so busy and so stressed we can lose focus on the gift of today. If we’re not careful we can take for granted our family our friends our health or our opportunities. We can easily lose sight of all the good things in our life. We can lose the right perspective. Being unhappy and miserable with one’s life is a choice we make as is being happy. They say a grateful heart has no room for discouragement. We need to learn to appreciate and be grateful for what we have.
As a kid my Uncle Ben would take me to work, he introduced me to many different trades. Many years had gone by and I had gone to college. After a couple of jobs I opened my small business. Every now and then my uncle Ben would come to work with me and help me out, cutting lumber and things. Eventually he had grown old, his back and his body were hurting him and I would go to see how he was doing. One day I went there and was complaining how stressed I was. I couldn’t keep up with all of the jobs and the new customer calls. No matter how hard I worked it was never enough. I just wanted to get through this time of my life I was very stressed out. My uncle looked at me and said I wish I could be in your shoes. I would do anything to get up off this bed, drive to get a coffee and do a hard days work. Life seems to have passed me by so quickly if I could go back to where you are right now I’d give up everything I have. He said don’t be so willing to wish for getting through this time in your life.
After our conversation I realized how being able to get out of bed, open your eyes and see, smelling the coffee cooking and doing a hard days work isn’t so ordinary. We should always be grateful for all that we have and are able to do. It’s all in our perspective of life.
I left uncle Ben’s house with a new attitude. I guess I realized how lucky I was to be able to do my job, have a home, have a wife that cares about me and have family and friends. It’s sometimes easy with all the stresses in life to lose focus on all of the blessings God has given us. Happy Sunday!J.Goodrich
Thank you for the wisdom you impart in your posts. It’s definitely needed in my life, and encouraging. And yes, it’s a beautiful Sunday! Could not go to church today, as my body does not always cooperate with my desires, but your post was “The word of the Day” for me. Thanks James Goodrich!
Thank You CQL, I hope abbreviation is OK, I appreciate your kind words!!
CQL is great. Lol…if AOC has initials, I can too.
😂😂😂 Thank You!!
Amen James! Wonderful words, & yes, sometimes our lives can be stressful, & we sometimes get wrapped up in our work & don’t spend enough time counting our Blessings. Your Uncle sounds like a great person, & teacher as well! It is nice to have family members that teach the youngster’s a trade, or other life skills! What an honor for you & probably your family as well!
Thank you Patricia I’ve spoke of my Uncle Ben before, he was my God Father, and a great person!!
Thank you for taking the time to share this J. Goodrich ~ Such a beautiful meditation this morning with my coffee. We took care of both of my husbands parents and my mother. At one time they all lived with us. I have experienced “stressed out for sure”. Once when I took my mother to the garden in her wheelchair to pick roses that she carried in her lap she said “I just wish we could squeeze out a little more time.”
She passed shortly after and I never forgot that statement.
I’m grateful for the time we had and I’ve found it true that the deeper bonding comes from the labor of taking care of someone.
Life is beautiful indeed. 🕊
Thank You Darla,D, I also took care of both of my parents until they passed. I was lucky to have my sister that greatly helped also. My mother in law has moved in with us now. I think we all need to balance our lives. Take time to appreciate the people around us. Every day is a gift. We shouldn’t have to wait for holidays to be thankful or give gifts or give a card saying I love you. This is something we should try to do every day in some manner, even with a compliment or helping someone that has a burden. It’s amazing how people remember simple acts of kindness even from a stranger.
Love Gizmo! Silly is joyful!! Good set of memes as always. Enjoy your Sunday!
Gizmo is foot loose and fancy free. Enjoying life! I like the evolution of the caduceus! Created by the Harvard and Wharton MBA's that now run Big Pharma! Local bias paper ran a major article on how RFK Jr. is not qualified to run HHS. Durbin expressed his guided medical opinion confirming this. I guess Alex Azar who guided the Covid con should be recalled! Time for Durbin to wake up and not be under the spell of Big Pharma.
What does not get much attention is,how all the fed intrusion into medicine has led to the expansion of the field of hosp admin which I believe was virtually nonexistent until the passage of medicare. Now those bozos are fully in charge and making big bucks
Not to mention killing people with their horrible protocols.
Completely agree with you here! Retired last year after 45 years working as an RN in open heart surgery and it was so different back in the day. Now I’ve talked to administration about problems and they are not interested in investigating problematic doctors and procedures that are borderline ethical (medical ethics has REALLY not kept up with medicine). Even our CEO, who was an excellent vascular surgeon, immediately adopted administration speak when he accepted the position. Between insurance and corporate it is impossible to advocate for your patients
And speaking of medicare (which I just signed up for)…why would you devise an insurance system for elderly individuals that is soooo convoluted that I believe that you will never find out which policy is a “best fit “ for you. Of course it is predominantly based on prescriptions with a footnote emphasis on fitness or diet. I really don’t know if someone will be able to unscramble this egg but I hope the new administration does something to help out.
Gee, do you think there could be some connection between the caduceus evolution and the United Health CEO hit this week? Their litigation record includes a fair amount of mendacity and deception to the general public particularly in the Medicare Advantage segment of their enterprise.
hmmm. learned a new word today.
I had to look it up! I know what the caduceus is, but as far as evolution...thst lost me! This site lays it out pretty clearly the difference between the caduceus and the rod of asclepius. https://sites.google.com/stu.clcillinois.edu/history-on-ancient-medicine/ancient-greek/the-caduceus-vs-rod-of-asclepius
Well Bonnie you were well ahead of me, then. I had no clue, now you got me going down the 2nd rabbit hole . . . asclepius's rod. Heck that has a dang snake around it. . .
I'm not a doctor but, if so, I wouldn't choose either of these things.
How about a heart held in a fragile grasp with two hands in offering upwards? Perhaps just a bit more appropriate to combine with the Hippocrates oath of "First do no harm."
?
Me too!
Yes, so much has changed in the health care field now days, & just trying to find a doctor, (or a NP in my case), that is on my “insurance carrier list”, has been difficult. But, the money that is made for carriers, is extremely profitable! The fees charged for services, and/or medical items/supplies used in hospitals or Urgent Care facilities is so expensive! I’m not surprised that someone took another’s life - someone that made so much money in the health care industry of course; but, that is not a reason to kill for. I’m sure the truth may come out as to why this happened, but, it may be a long wait for the truth. Very sad.
It all really started going downhill when the hospitals (corporations) started buying out the MD’s practices Now they are owned by corporate healthcare which is in bed with big pharma, big insurance and the government. This doesn’t make for the best care. You basically have to go outside the system, pay out of pocket and find an independent physician. Lots of MD’s have given up the rat race and practice independently. It costs, but ultimately it will keep you healthier.
It is worth it, considering the alternative.
This graphic shows the end-stage evolution of the caduces to dollar signs:
https://nedb.substack.com/p/for-profit-healthcare
"For-profit healthcare makes ill-gotten gains."
Ned, gonna disagree - what we need is more "for profit" health care, less gummint interference, more private competition. If we want to subsidize HC for "the poor," etc., then provide them with a voucher for basic insurance to which they can add to themself or thru a 3rd party for Cadillac plans, etc.
Once you take the profit out of HC you’ll end up with maybe one MRI per state, in a large city of course, and the least capable or most pretentious going into medicine.
It was comic to see Fauci sitting on Santa's knees....with Santa saying he was a bad boy...when few in the world could be more corrupt... pushing policies and vaxes that destroyed multi-multitudes. The other one with the names of three of the angriest women on TV with the names: Whoopi, Sunny and Joy....was memorable, too. Life on the farm has its bad moments and its good. It is devastating, when you lose an animal you love, like your percheron. .
Very sad to hear about Corbeau. Losing a beloved member of the family is a heartbreak unlike any other. For me, it is the very worst part of being blessed with and truly loving our animals.
PS: Best memes ever.
Those two Percherons are the most handsome of that breed that I've ever seen - beautiful conformation!
All of them are So funny except the pardoning of Fauci and all the insider trading money launderers. Thank God Trump will have Air Force 1 back soon. Palm Trees were hilarious … God keep everyone safe through the transition, especially the silly birds and beautiful beasts.
It seems not so long ago that Boeing was universally lauded as a top-flight company.
Senator Josh Hawley's exchange with Boeing's former CEO, occurring this past June in a Senate committee hearing, is probably still the stuff of nightmares for the poor rich executive. Not pretty for him. At all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LOG9tL6MKM
PS: Just discovered his tenure as CEO ended in August.
talk about being taken to the woodshed! WHoooo. Josh needs a raise.
This article explains how state AGs can prosecute the likes of Anthony Fauci and many others, even if Santa Joe pardons them on federal crimes:
Criminality and Financial Incentives Concerning Hospital COVID Deaths: Why a Presidential Pardon Can't Shield Fauci from State Prosecution | The Gateway Pundit | by Guest Contributor
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/12/criminality-financial-incentives-concerning-hospital-covid-deaths-why/
A little credit might have been nice... but not really expected.
My X post on Dec 5 lays it out - and many AGs responded that they would consider it.
"Manslaughter cases are generally prosecuted under state law, as states have their own criminal codes defining and penalizing manslaughter.
It would be nice to see @KenPaxtonTX, @AGAndrewBailey
(both of whom I admire greatly) or some other brave state attorney general, bring involuntary manslaughter charges against Fauci for the deaths due to G-of-F work that created the SARS-CoV-2 virus - as he is directly responsible due to funding these projects.
If any state AG is interested, I would be glad to offer my services as an expert witness for such a lawsuit.
State law and prosecution is considered outside of a president's ability to pardon."
https://x.com/RWMaloneMD/status/1864697940461133843
Many states have a “Reckless Conduct” statute.
Also drug induced homicide fits.
The probable cause for either (sufficient grounds to arrest) is relatively low.
Only takes one charge on one actor to open the flood gates.
Sorry. I was just sharing a new article I read (I am not on X so would have missed your contribution).
The hand injuries, the angriest people on TV, and physics class really got me. Your Emu video was nice. Does Gizmo think he's a dog, too?
Have a cat we call Silly Billy that, well.....
last night around 8 pm, dark, we heard our cat whining and opened the deck door. . . he had scaled the cedar roof support post with his claws and was up there on the roof, stuck! His name is Batty for a reason.
Smart lot today!
Start with your handsome pair. Checked my photos and have a nice 2014 shot of 6 gorgeous black percherons showing at the HoCo fair. But you arent driving. Darn. Your loss echos. Awful to loose one, particularly that way.
Gizmo is a trip. One has to wonder what is going on in bird brains. Thanks much for creating and sharing!
Read an ET article this am on an extremely sophisticated system, that the CCP has been distributing widely (including Argentina) to substantially enhance farming.
Your day sounds delightful. 🐎
OFF TOPIC:
Was able to get in touch with Shelley via a comment. Had a good thanksgiving with son. Christmas decorations are up. Says she's not receiving Malone SS posts, ? just comments? Said she does miss us and will keep checking for Malone posts.
Have a great day all.
Good to hear Shelley is ok, but I wish Dr Malone would email her to see what’s up with not getting his substack.
I checked the Substack web site and they list 2 options she can try. One that specifically relates to her problem and the other let's one email re the issue. So we'll see if that helps.
Glad to hear about Shelley. Was worried about her too. Has she logged on to Who is Robt. Malone on the internet? I have that bookmarked and occasionally when I suspect am missing issues I go to the bookmark.
Copied and will see if I can get it to her.
She should be getting the copy of your post.
Priceless is —> Every time I read your column or enjoy the Sunday Strip I smile laugh…Thank You.
Merry Christmas to the Malone’s and thank you for everything that you do. I’m not a horse person but have many friends that do so what I’m gonna say might be somewhat ignorant, but is there not way to be able to nurture a horse back after a broken leg?
I was wondering the same. All mammals seem to recover from broken bones with proper care, though it can be prohibitively expensive.
Finding ways to save our precious equine friends from euthanasia after breaks and other mishaps — which appear so common with horses — would be a wonderful area of research.
Long time ago I wondered the same, took a minute to scan Dr Google and it is possible but there are a lot of factors involved in its success - most important 🤷♀️ is if it’s a clean break, intact skin (infection) and the horse’s nature. A messy/compound fracture is probably not possible.
I got to wondering about this recently myself - came across a scene in my garden a few weeks ago: was digging up potatoes, the last variety out of 9 or 10 and I came across what I thought was a dead rodent - the tail end. Poking around it turned out to be about 10-12" of the lower portion of a deer’s leg, including the hoof, hoof side down. Since I haven’t been actively trapping invasive rodents (gophers/ground squirrels) there are areas riddled with tunnels. The guys in my small group think I’m crazy but I’ve been wondering; could a deer have been spooked by a neighbor (dog 🤷♀️), run helter skelter thru the garden, stepped into/through one of these tunnels and cleanly snapped off its foreleg? The guys say it was buried by a dog (orientation is wrong) or dropped by a hawk/eagle.
My concern is that come spring/summer and I can begin dealing with the weed forest that use to be my garden I’ll find a deer carcass in there.
All I know is that it’s weird
I would guess, no. No chance deer broke it off and. . . left it in the hole. Likely is that a dog buried it after scavenging a gut / carcass pile from a local hunter's kill.
No.
Gizmo! Thank you for making me smile.
Always look forward to the Friday funnies and Sunday strip. Gizmo is quite a bird!