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Originally known as "cow leg-breakers" by ammoniacal (4.00 / 1) #4 Mon Apr 07, 2008 at 03:45:39 AM EST

The ranching industry gave way to social pressures in the 1970s and renamed them to the more humanitarian-sounding "cattle guards".

Also, my father was killed by a bison, you insensitive clod.

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so they won't cross them because they slip through by misslake (4.00 / 1) #15 Mon Apr 07, 2008 at 03:07:00 PM EST

and break their legs?
i don't think the ones we saw weren't spaced far apart enough for bison to fall through, their hooves were nearly as big as my hand, and the grates were easy for me to walk across, and even in my big boots my feet are only one and a half times the size of my hand. i'd have to go back and measure the bison tracks and the spaces between them.

cows are notoriously poor problem solvers and bad critical thinkers, do some cows have to fall through and break their legs before the herd knows not to try and walk there?

and what about the big game animals that are being 'protected' by them up here? i'd think the risk of critically endangered woodland caribou breaking their woolly little legs, or the loss of more monetarily valuable animals big horned sheeps and elk might make a leg-breaking gate unsuitable.
though i suppose a couple broken legs vs. damage to cars on the highway might make them an acceptable option.

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Oh boy. by ammoniacal (4.00 / 1) #20 Mon Apr 07, 2008 at 03:44:16 PM EST

cows are notoriously poor problem solvers and bad critical thinkers

That is dangerously close to being sigged.

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so are you going to back up by misslake (4.00 / 1) #23 Mon Apr 07, 2008 at 08:12:33 PM EST

or respoind to your leg breaking assertion? is that how the texas gates really work?
do the cows need to break their legs before they learn not to cross them?

sorry about your father's ungulate related death.

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Well, only *one* cow needs to do it. by ammoniacal (2.00 / 0) #24 Mon Apr 07, 2008 at 08:24:38 PM EST

They're not great at critical thinking, but they have really advanced social networks.

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Kind of like MySpace. by ammoniacal (2.00 / 0) #25 Mon Apr 07, 2008 at 09:04:40 PM EST

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: MooSpace? by LilFlightTest (4.00 / 1) #29 Tue Apr 08, 2008 at 11:46:04 PM EST

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