A Jungle Cat in Cow’s Clothing
When dozens of chickens are missing on a farm, it is easy to blame a wolf or, in this case, the dogs. Imagine the chagrin of farmer Ajit Ghosh when he discovered that it was his favorite calf that was devouring the chickens alive!
“Instead of the dogs, we watched in horror as the calf, whom we had fondly named Lal, snuck into the coop and grabbed the little ones with the precision of a jungle cat," Gour Ghosh, the brother, said.
There is a lesson to be learned here and I think we all know what that is. Um. Cows are people too? Stereotypes can be deceiving? Tastes like chicken? Whatever lesson you take from this, experts think there is medical reasoning for this behavior.
“We think lack of vital minerals in the body is causing this behavior. We have taken a look and have asked doctors to look into the case immediately," Mihir Satpathy, a district veterinary officer, said.
I’m more inclined to believe that this is just a simple case of a jungle cat being trapped in a cow’s body.
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