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Re: Goat Rental – Hire Goats

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Post by h2odragon »

d_rc wrote: post #84

Another story from a fellow hacker with a backyard goat - It actually starts in a very subtle way. Goats have different tastes and moods, and it's not like they eat everything right away unless the density of a goat per backyard m2 is too high. I started giving mine some free "roaming" time with the chickens every day before the sunset. It looked very innocent - first few days she ate just some weeds, nettle and some…

> won't be able to escape

I suspect you may be falling to overconfidence there.

Also, single goat? That's tough, I've done it by running the goat with a pack of dogs and treating it as a dog, but witha lone goat, who doesn't feel they have herd, keeping them happy is difficult.

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Post by gambiting »

samatman wrote: post #139
KingMob wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> If there was ever a win-win situation, this is it. Say what? She lies via omission to the parents, forcing them to make an uninformed choice. Instead of letting a rabbit loose in the wild, they might have sought another home for it, because they didn't want it to die. Your sister's lies mislead them into thinking they can safely return the rabbit.

They can, in fact, safely return the rabbit to the stew pot. They're food. Rabbits. People eat them. It's not better for the rabbit to be turned loose to be mauled to death by a housecat or eaten by a coyote. A shelter is going to euthanize, wasting good meat. This is squeamishness masquerading as morality.

That's not the point. I have literally nothing against eating rabbits - they are delicious in fact.

I do hover, object to lying. Like OP said - they(everyone in fact) have the right to make an informed choice. By omitting this information, people who are returning a rabbit aren't making an informed choice. It's a trick, a ruse, if money was involved I'd call it a fraud.

Nothing to do with squeamishness.

Re: Goat Rental – Hire Goats

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Post by dcastm »

yitchelle wrote: post #54

Story time - My dad asked the local school which had a goat if he can borrow it for a weekend. It was to tame his backyard. As the backyard was enclosed with no chance of the goat escaping, we left it by itself. The goat was be extremely hungry and ate everything insight including the roots, leaves and bark. By Monday, the backyard is barren and took months recover. Moral of the story - keep an eye on the goat.

Looks like she goat herself in trouble

Re: Goat Rental – Hire Goats

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Post by freilanzer »

dunefox wrote: post #130
mingusrude wrote: post #55

My sister has a small farm and in addition to cows and horses she also has rabbits. Every spring, parents show up to buy a rabbit to have at home. When the deal is done my sister takes the parents aside and tell them that if they plan or feel by the end of the summer that they want to let the rabbit loose, they can return it for free. What she does not tell is that our brother-in-law is a chef and happily makes rabbi…

Yeah, sounds like a win-win situation alright - the pet rabbit gets slaughtered, the children and parents are lied to. Your sister sounds like a great person.

Agreed, that seems rather questionable.

Re: Goat Rental – Hire Goats

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Post by wikfwikf »

withinboredom wrote: post #81
KingMob wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> If there was ever a win-win situation, this is it. Say what? She lies via omission to the parents, forcing them to make an uninformed choice. Instead of letting a rabbit loose in the wild, they might have sought another home for it, because they didn't want it to die. Your sister's lies mislead them into thinking they can safely return the rabbit.

Letting them free will likely get them eaten anyway, probably less humanly since they’ll still be alive while they are eaten. Or run over. These are domesticated rabbits, not wild ones.

Would you rather be released from prison into a dangerous world or executed?

Re: Goat Rental – Hire Goats

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Post by genezeta »

moffkalast wrote: post #132
codebolt wrote: post #128

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Same here on Edge.

Also on Chrome, I'm pretty sure it's a joke.

It does look like a bug.

Like the iframe and the parent are sending each other a message to match the heights of the content document and the iframe element but it miss-calculates producing a vertical scroll to appear, which then posts another message back to adjust again and so on, back and forth.

Re: Goat Rental – Hire Goats

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Post by juahan »

BadOakOx wrote: post #116
throwawaylinux wrote: post #75

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Fox guarding the hen house seems like the English equivalent to that.

In Hungarian, we mix the two of yours: Goat guarding the cabbage.

In Finland we have almost exactly the same: Goat guarding the gabbage patch.

Re: Goat Rental – Hire Goats

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Post by withinboredom »

wikfwikf wrote: post #155
withinboredom wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Letting them free will likely get them eaten anyway, probably less humanly since they’ll still be alive while they are eaten. Or run over. These are domesticated rabbits, not wild ones.

Would you rather be released from prison into a dangerous world or executed?

These are not wild rabbits.

You cannot release them into the wild, just like you can’t release penguins from the zoo into the wild. We spend most of our adult life teaching our children how to survive. Most people don’t teach their pets how to survive.

No offense, but your question makes no sense in the scope we are dealing with. But fwiw, most people released from prison don’t do so well with reintegration. Some don’t survive, some end up going back, and very few thrive.

Re: Goat Rental – Hire Goats

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Post by wikfwikf »

withinboredom wrote: post #98
pluijzer wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What the parent post means is that the owners might not have let the rabbit free bit would find an other alternative, like keeping the rabbit anyway because they love it, giving the rabbit to a friend etc. But now they think their is this great alternative of giving the rabbit back but unknowingly killing it.

I’ve had several friends have rabbits in my lifetime. They all t eventually let them go instead of finding a new home. Each time I looked at them in horror while I imagined the lucky hawk having dinner. Most people think rabbits are “natural” when they may actually be invasive. So they let them go. Finding a new home is the last thing on every one of these owners mind.

These are two contradictory reasons. Rabbits are considered invasive because there is a non-zero chance they will escape the hawk and reproduce.
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