A buddy of mine ended up with some number of water buffaloes. It is
actually a pretty funny story. I can't remember all the details but it
involved a guy who had like 20 of the things he was going into the
mozarella cheese business and needed some place to keep them. This was
like 4 or 5 years ago, maybe 6. My buddy has cattle he raises for beef
for restaurants around here, and his farm is along the river, so for
whatever rent he said sure he would keep them and do whatever with them,
they can hang out in the river or ponds or whatever.
So time goes by and the guy is not dealing with the WBs, then goes dark,
not paying anything and can't be reached. Some months pass and he calls
up and says he has found another place for them, so he says he'll come
and get some to take wherever. My buddy notices a few days later seems
like there are more around so he counts them and is totally like WTF is
going on, there's more of them now than there were before. Seems rather
than picking them up the guy dropped off more that he had been keeping
somewhere else. So now there's like 30-35 of them hanging around, and
the guy disappears again. Plus I think they started reproducing, there
might have been a bull or two in the mix along in there at some point,
or he brought them or something.
Then some other guy from Georgia calls and says he has bought them, some
number of them, and wants to come get them. My buddy by then is like
come get every one of the damn things, I'm tired of fooling with them.
So the guy shows up with a tractor trailer, and starts loading then says
he only bought 20 or 25 of them, he can't deal with the others, thank
you very much. So my buddy now has a bunch of the things around still,
and reproducing. They are pretty big, and fairly docile but stupid, so
he just kinda lets them hang out with his other cattle. He might have
sold some or something but apparently the market is fairly limited to
cheese producers and there aren't too many in that bidness. I'm not
sure they're any good for eating or they would be on menus around here.
I don't think anyone else wants to milk them so they just do whatever
cows do. You go over there and drive through the fields, and there are
these big water buffaloes and babies hanging around in the pastures and
the woods and whatnot, mixed in with his regular cattle, it's pretty
funny, looks like Vietnam or some damn place.
--FT
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