Mutilated cow found near Paradise Hill

[emad]

He stops short of pointing the finger at aliens, but Ray Riguidel swears what he saw in his pasture last Friday evening couldn’t have been done by humans or animals.

Kirk Sibbald


Lloydminster Meridian Booster — He stops short of pointing the finger at aliens, but Ray Riguidel swears what he saw in his pasture last Friday evening couldn’t have been done by humans or animals.

Riguidel, 68, has been farming near Paradise Hill his entire life. During that time he’s lost his share of cattle under various circumstances, but the 10-year-old cow he lost this weekend was far different from the rest.

The udder was gone, one eye and ear had been removed and the sex organs were torn away. The remaining 50 or so cattle in the pasture had congregated as far away from the corpse as possible.
There were no tire tracks or footprints. There was no sign of a struggle.

Perhaps most bizarre, however, was a glaring lack of blood despite the numerous and carefully crafted incisions into the carcass.
“When you see a cow go down, you go look, but I didn’t have to look twice,” said Riguidel. “There was a guy with me, and we both popped our eyes.
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[Shell Beau]

1. Reminds me of that South Park episode!

I wish there was a pic!

[Cannikin]

2. Where's Art Bell when you need him?!?!?!?

[Ready4Change]

3. Predators, carrion eaters, go for soft tissues first.

Eyes, underbellies, genitals. If the cow died of some non-predatory cause (heart attack?) then it's heart wouldn't be pumping and less blood would be lost when feeding commenced.

And vultures beaks can make cuts that look like they were done by knives.

When was the last time you saw a buzzard leaving tire tracks?

[Swede]

4. These guys are ranchers that notice something different going on.

Rancher's see dead cattle every day. When was the last time you saw a dead cow?

[Ready4Change]

5. Not many dead cows. Lots of deer, though.

I've seen long dead cows, basically bones and clinging flesh.

But I've seen many dead deer. (I take hikes in local parks way overpopulated with deer.) I've seen them from just bones down to one freshly dead from a bullet. (I think it was from the park attempting to cull the herds.)

Buzzards will often bite open a narrow opening, usually in the belly, and empty the bowels through that by sticking their heads in there. (That's why their heads are nearly feather free. Easier to extract from the carcass, easier to clean up afterwards.) As more buzzards show up and feeding progresses that opening gets wider.

When the internal organs are consumed, they start working on harder flesh areas, like muscle tissues. This is more difficult, but made easier as the flesh rots.

But there is a moment, just when the internal organs have been consumed, but before muscle tissues have been attacked, that the carcass looks "surgically emptied." Muscle tissues look fresh, and the hole used to access the internal organs isn't very large. Looks quite neatly done. Return later in the day or week and it'll be a mess.

[Kraklen]

6. Yes, no human could mutilate a cow like that.

[Red State Prisoner]

7. It was Indrid Cole