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  • #2
    Bizzum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,034 ✭✭✭Bizzum


    Thanks Lucyfur, great link.
    A neighbour of mine had an ass that would do something similar.

    On a related point: Why can't the RTE reporter call her a heifer instead of a cow? It bugs me. Perhaps Im getting grumpy wihh age!:)


  • #3
    Ken.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,898 ✭✭✭✭Ken.


    I never noticed(not from a farming background). Just seen it on the news and thought the good folks here would like a giggle at this busy time.


  • #4
    Ashill5
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 194 ✭✭Ashill5


    brilliant bit of telly!:D


  • #5
    vincenzolorenzo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,235 ✭✭✭vincenzolorenzo


    Very funny alright, and nice to see a farming story on the news! Although i've seen cows doing it plenty of times before. We used to put a bit of wire around the handle to stop them doing just that.


  • #6
    convert
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,339 ✭✭✭convert


    It gave a great laugh, apart from the fact that the reporter felt the need to call all cattle 'cows'... Really bugs me! :rolleyes:

    We had a horse at home who could open stable doors and gates. He'd open his door, let all his pals out, the open the gate and go for a bit of a skite! Didn't do the lawns any good, tho. The current horse can open all the stable doors and gates, as well as pretty much any knot in ropes or twine, lead rope hooks and take the lid off barrels and bins to get at feed. Funny, but a nightmare to mind! :(


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  • #7
    animan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 510 ✭✭✭animan


    convert wrote: »
    It gave a great laugh, apart from the fact that the reporter felt the need to call all cattle 'cows'... Really bugs me! :rolleyes:

    We had a horse at home who could open stable doors and gates. He'd open his door, let all his pals out, the open the gate and go for a bit of a skite! Didn't do the lawns any good, tho. The current horse can open all the stable doors and gates, as well as pretty much any knot in ropes or twine, lead rope hooks and take the lid off barrels and bins to get at feed. Funny, but a nightmare to mind! :(

    http://www.anythingequine.co.uk/School-Yard-and-Field/Yard-and-Stable/Fittings/Stubbs-Autolock-Door-Bolt-S42

    We have something like this and I've yet to see a horse open it.


  • #8
    7Sins
    Closed Accounts Posts: 526 ✭✭✭7Sins


    I have issues with the way the reporter referred to the cow (heifer) as a dumb animal :mad:

    Then the actual documented footage (supposedly the investigator aka. the kid next door who left a camera overnight) is clearly a fake, as the camera is been handheld and edited for different vantage points of the escape.

    Utterly or should I say udderly :rolleyes: pointless. Did this farmer ring up the news and go..."Here come here RTE?! I've a coooooooooooow openun gates, you busy?! sure come on up there and i'll have the tae on for ye"

    Seriously worth my tv licence fee RTE, thank you...thank you very much :)


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