Book of Jeremiah
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I know what you mean. I got attached to a goldfish! The kind you win at the fair. Had him for five years. My husbands favorite pet was a cow named buttercup. I hope you do get your bull back.I struggled over whether or not I should share this but I will. I had a prize bull that was my pet. His father had papers and must have been a stunning specimen. I never saw his father. I loved my bull. He had such a wonderful sweet personality and was like a big teddy bear. He became so big that he began breaking out at night. He was over 1700 lbs and huge. Bigger than the bull in your video. I did not want to give him up but he kept breaking out and and I thought something might happen if I didn't.You are good people.I feel very grieved looking at this picture. There was no reason to kill this giraffe.
My granddaughter loves giraffes. She saw one at a zoo and was fascinated. One day she was visiting us and got inside her little mini van that is on our patio - she was 2 1/2 yrs. old at the time- she stood up on the back seat sticking her upper half of her body up through the open "sun roof" of her toy mini van.
She said to me, Look! Grandma! I a giraffe!
What a wonderful memory. I'll treasure it forever.
Then he broke out and took a walk around the neighborhood and broke someone's water pipe and rammed a truck parked in someone's yard. We paid cash for damages and agreed we would sell the bull but I didn't want him ending up at a market sold for meat as he was a red angus Bull and had a very muscular beefy build. He was very well fed and taken care of. People who saw him said, He is so beautiful! What a beauty! I thought about forgetting about my vow to sell him and he broke out again. This time he pushed the vehicles and truck around the yard. Actually he pushed one of my husband's cars and his truck into our house. But the next morning my husband said, He never touched your station wagon. I told him of course he didn't. He knows that is my car. He used to run beside my car when I drove into the property he'd be so happy to see me. I'd lower my window and talk baby talk to him and he'd smile at me showing me this big toothy grin! He was just so precious.
A rancher came to buy him and I asked him if he had a big ranch. He said yes he will have plenty of room to run. Well, my husband became suspicious and thought he is going to take him to the auction. So he checked up on him and sure enough that was what he was planning to do. So we canceled the sale and told the rancher we decided to keep him. We've never slaughtered any of our animals. We just enjoy them being out there in the field and watching them graze.
Then recently a man who has a bull ranch ending up buying him -my husband arranged this I was not there. I look out at the field and remember him standing there and feel very sad and think I shouldn't have let him go. But if he is happy and safe then it is better than something else happening.
So while I was still feeling sad about my bull no longer being here two of my red angus heifers gave birth very closely together. Both newborns were baby bulls. I named one baby bull after my pet bull. So we have two baby bulls and one grown bull still here (who is the eldest son of the bull that left and the father of the two newborns).
The newborns have helped to take my mind off of it a little bit but you grow very attached to your animals and I'm still feeling like he needs to come home. I'm wondering if my husband could just hire someone and maybe reinforce the fences - we have plenty of land and fields for him to run in but he always figures out a way to get out. My husband mentioned missing him the other day. I am tempted to buy him back. I know I sound ridiculous. I'm sorry but I miss my bull. I really miss him! There was a guy in the field working with my husband one day and my bull saw him and he began to charge him! The guy had to get behind a tree or in it I can't remember the story now. But he didn't want to come back. My bull had a sense about people so maybe there was something not right about the guy. Who knows.
I had a beta fish named Baruch that I saved from a Walmart store. He was swimming in filthy water and desperate so I had to buy him before I even had a tank. I just bought a glass fish bowl and put him in that while I looked for a tank. I bought him a fluval edge tank - it was set up beautifully and I enjoyed him. The beta fish is an exceptionally smart fish. He knew me and would swim to the edge of the tank when I came up to see him. Well, many months later he got sick and I tried everything but I couldn't save him. When he died I felt very bad. I still have the tank but no fish. If I find another one swimming in dirty water at Walmart I'll probably take that as a sign that I am ready for another indoor fish. I have 3 gold fish that are quite big. Their names are Shadrach, Meshach and Abednigo. They live in the outdoor pond, it's 2,000 gallons and has a water fall that stays on all the time. They have plenty of room to swim around and play. My husband put two pipes in the bottom of the pond and they hide in there at night so no predator can get to them.
The pond is right there by my patio. A woman who came to visit said you are very brave. Those ponds draw snakes. I told her I prayed the snakes off my land (about 13 years ago) and I've never seen another one since. Neither has anyone else. My neighbors have a problem with snakes but we don't. That's the power of My God. He's the greatest!