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Please do ponder. It would be an interesting story. We animal people are always wondering about what our animals are thinking and feeling . . . . P.S. The next fiction deadline looks like Nov. 30th.

What I wish was I had kept a journal of all the years I took care of domestic waterfowl in a city park. They all had names and stories. Alas, I did not and there is no way I can go back in my mind and recreate it all. I'll read Hope In The Mail. Thanks for the suggestion. Okay, for you or...

Hey, I took three years of journalism/newspaper staff in high school. I'm very fond of the field. I would have majored in it in college except the deadlines made me a neurotic nut! Actually, I was a neurotic teenager and the deadlines just worsened my condition. 🤪 I have very fond memories...

Yeah, good the goats liked you or they could have decided to do you in . . . or put you out of your suffering! 😉 It's not bad kids are capable of doing all sorts of farm jobs, but according to a Farm Progress story online: "About every three days a child on a U.S. farm dies from an...

That must have been a VERY painful crawl. :( Good for your second donkey, and I'm glad you didn't get revenge on the first. It's funny . . . most of the time I read how people think cow eyes are so pretty and that's why they like them so much. I'm hearing the flip side here on this f😳rum...

Well, your fear is not totally irrational according to the article, where it states: 1) "There were 1610 animal-related fatalities, with the majority from nonvenomous animals (2.8 deaths per 10 million persons). The largest proportion of animal-related fatalities was due to “other mammals,”...

Thinking about it, I have never once read an article anywhere about someone killed by a cow. Bulls, yes, but those were articles about bullfighters. I'm curious . . . do local newspapers covering rural areas with farms and ranches report deaths caused by animals?

Yes, it did! It's also not up-to-date on more recent killings by larger wild animals, such as bears. But even if you count those type of killings, the number of people in this country killed by animals and insects each year is a tiny percentage compared to the number who die each year from...

Here's an interesting article on which animals and insects are most likely to kill humans: https://www.wemjournal.org/article/S1080-6032(17)30313-7/fulltext Statistics are from 2008-2015.