Linsey. He is preceded in death by his parents and his brother Jason Carlisle.
ON THE EDGE OF COMMON SENSE
TANIMAL h e L a sBONDING t Dollar
For those of you who forgot how easy it was to get started in Today there is an increased recognition of the bonding process farming let me tell you about my friend Con. Many years ago, he between man and animals. Pets are now referred to in politically boughtcircles a farm as in the wilds of Minnesota. The feller that him correct companion animals. Companion. Bysold definition; theassociate, farm hada comrade. his farm It’s salenotthe daychoice Con ofarrived an a bad words to in atake world possession of the where families getland. fractionated, children leave home, neighbors don’t know people getalllonely. petupon can be a good Now, Coneach had other been aand cowboy type his lifeAand viewing companion. the farm machinery stacked in the yard, he was hard put to Ofidentify course,anything when the wordthan ‘bonding’ is used, almost always other the handy manthey jackareand a tractor. speaking of the bonding between humans and dogs or cats. Wait But he thought if this stuff was good enough for the farmer that . . . maybe not cats. I’m not sure one can bond with a cat. But, be soldasout, it wasthey good him. He’d figger out what itand wasthe that it may, areenough never for referring to livestock people later. All the neighbors for miles around came to see who the in animals in their care. Livestock bonding does occur infrequently new sucker wassheepherding and maybepig, pick over with the machinery like fiction. Babe, the bonded Farmer Hoggett. buzzards on fresh Mary had her little roadkill… lamb. Colonel Sanders . . . well, that might be a bad Conexample. jumped in and bought the only thing he recognized: the I tractor. contendIt that is a bonding between wasinareal 45 life, Allis,there he paid $1,250. Then he stockmen bought theand
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Mounted that wentatwith it.on a bigchute pile every of orange “Ain’t As a vetplow I have stood the squeeze fall asmetal. the cows you bought thea tractor and the Con are gonna worked.buy Mythat? job isYou to give the cow quick ‘going over’plow.” for physbought it. Two days he foundexamination. out it was a mounted cultivator. ical fitness and do later a pregnancy Typical deal; this ol’ mama comes the chute the speed of Con a sloth on When the salestumbling was over in several of theatfarmers asked to load Valium. The head gate clangs shut, never touches the cow. Run a their heavy stuff, since he’d bought the tractor an’ all, they said. Con stick down her side, sounds like a prod pole across a picket fence. leaped up in the seat, intent on showin’ these skeptical neighbors he Her tail headheis stickin’ up likeHea shark’s she’s draggin’ tit on knew what was doin’. fumbledfin,around for tenone minutes, the ground. I’m thinkin’ to myself, ‘is there any point in putting a switching on the headlights, the choke, the throttle, the gaugesonand plastic sleeve and torturing this poor beast anymore?’ wipin’ transfer clean lookin’ some instructions. Finally Then the I look up to case the headgate and for there is that good cowman, anrubbing ol’ timer reached over and said, “Pull this, son.” It fired up right his chin and lookin’ at that old cow like he’s in a jewelry away (it was the only time in the next five years it ever did that). He store. ‘Am I missing something here?’ I ask myself, dumbfounded. couldn’t the shift fortunatelyThat it was gear andand the I finally find realized I waspattern missingbut something. goodin cowman clutch was not where it belonged. me were looking at the same cow! See, I was looking at an economic have ahim calf,tobreed another The first unit. thing Will theyshe wanted loadback wasand an bring old pull type, one homedisc. nextItfall? disjointed never went anyplace he aimed it. Con would turn He on and the other hand looking an animal he thatdragged had taken him around it would bewas passing him.atEventually it up on payinflicting windowconsiderable for ten years.damage He might know her even betatoflatthebed in the process. Pleased ter than that. might him Everybody over a fence, he might with himself he She turned and have said, put “Next?” elseorhad drifted have helped her throughout a bad calving. But he knows her away. and owes her. He wants to make sure she gets the benefit of the The feller with the bent disc came over to Con, opened his wallet doubt. and handed a dollar bill. “Kid, thisGranted and buyheyourself And that’s ahim bond. As genuine as ayou cat take or dog. doesn’ta can of gas. It’ll be the first and last dollar you ever make farmin’,but think of her as an associate or a comrade, as in “git along little comyou’ll to git and outtagather town.”our associates”. But it is rade”always or “let’shave go toenough the pasture a bond just the same, built on respect. www.baxterblack.com Arizona Cattlelog
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