Bulls kill their caregivers. Boars kill their caregivers. Stallions
kill their caregivers. Rams have probably been known to kill their
caregivers, they have certainly broken bones. Livestock do not love us
the way dogs do. Male livestock animals are walking hormones and they
are hardwired to the survival of the fittest imperative. To them you're
just another sheep to be dominated. They are not pets, they cannot be
made into pets. People who have worked around the same apparently
docile bulls for years are killed by them. The ram who batters you has
selected you for extermination. If you move out of his way you have
conceded defeat. He won't change his mind and he'll work at it until
he's eliminated you from the flock.
You don't need to brutalize a male livestock animal, but you DO have to
respect that he's a four legged guided missile with only two things on
his mind, dominate and reproduce. Oh, and maybe eat.
Barb L.
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