Do animals think evil thoughts?

notjustair · Jul 14, 2015

It is hot as a firecracker here again today. As I was watching all of the hogs in the various pins find their spot in the mud hole, I wondered whether they think evil thoughts. The front set of pens I use for farrowing - there are three sows in those now ready to farrow in the next five days. Last I looked the were all up to their eyeballs in mud.

One of the sows is the matriarch of the farm. She's about seven years old and by far the oldest. I broke my rule about age with her because she's such a darn good mother, has huge litters, and is smart enough to take over the courthouse. I figure she's earned her right to grow old and die here. After another litter or two, of course.

On the other side of her pen is the doghouse. It's really more of a single car garage, but it is only for the dogs. My big boy is a Burmese Mountain dog (125 pounds) and the heat is hard on him. He's got about half of his fur shaved for the summer but still has a window air conditioner in his house for days like today. I usually don't see him after morning chores, but if I make noise he sticks his head out of the dog door,looks around, and then disappears back inside. When I shut the shed door just now and he did that I swear that old sow glared at him. I think he made the mistake of telling her he set the thermostat at 75. She also seems to hate it when he hops in the pickup for a ride. All 600 pounds of her isn't hopping anywhere.

Mark - IN. · Jul 14, 2015

When I was a kid, we had a cat that for whatever reason, liked to bite my earlobes. Didn't bite or give anyone else in the family or anyone else for that matter trouble. Me? Three, four years old, would pierce my earlobes. The family would be in the living room, brothers and sisters sitting on the floor, and that cat would sneak up behind me, EVERY TIME, and bite my earlobes. Evil cat with evil thoughts until months later when it got into a fight with something, got rabies, and was promptly put out of its and my misery. That was the end of an evil cat with evil thoughts.

Mark

60 acre hillside · Jul 14, 2015

I do not think she has any evil thoughts but may have some dirty thoughts about her boar friend

Sister Sow: Heard from your boar friend?
Dirty Sow: Yeah, I got a litter last week.

IowaJohn · Jul 14, 2015

"Yep"!!! You've seen the show "Dexter" we have a cat named Dexter, need I say more. She'd be gone if she wasn't such a good mouser.

Billy Shafer · Jul 14, 2015

My dog does. Every time I tell him to move. He gives me the evil look and growls while he moves.

rrlund · Jul 14, 2015

Does this look like she wants to kill me? I took the picture off the front porch,across the road and used the zoom. She spotted me.

Dick L · Jul 14, 2015

I had a stud mini horse that couldn't be trusted. He would try to sneak up behind you and bite or rear up and strike at you. Facing him or walking up to him to put a lead on his halter you would never know it. He was not shy or stand offish. He would sometimes try to nip you when leading him but a sharp no would stop him. Just couldn't work in the lot with your back to him.

Goose · Jul 14, 2015

There was once a big black tom cat that would occasionally show up at our place. He definitely had an "attitude". He'd bully the other cats, chase them away from the feed pan, etc., and then look at them like he was saying, "What are you going to do about it?"

One day I walked out of my shop and saw him disappear into a shed. I turned back into the shop and grabbed my .30-.30. I watched the door of the shed he'd gone into and waited. Sure enough, he soon peeked out of the door. I nailed him right between the eyes.

It wasn't a pretty sight.

tractorguy2 · Jul 14, 2015

years a go I had the pasture rented to a neighbor. I had to pass through the pasture with my equipment to get to the south 90 acres.I had to stop to open and close two gates. The neighbor's bull would see me coming and would go on a dead run to get to the other gate before I did. The dumb thing would always get to the other gate first. He would put his butt up against the gate and not move!!

Texasmark1 · Jul 14, 2015

Do (wild) animals think evil thoughts? Yepper, let's eat.

Gambles · Jul 14, 2015

We've got a little short-haired Chihuahua dog that absolutely HAS to have a car ride every day. For some reason, he's in heaven when he's riding along. There are certain times that he absolutely can't go along. With it being in the upper 90s today, and the car being parked for about an hour in the hot sun, today was one of them. So when we are getting ready to go out, and he's like an Energizer bunny by the front door, it ain't a pretty sight when we say "You've got to stay home". He will sulk back to the couch, crawl on top of his blanket and give us the silent treatment. He won't even look at us as we leave.
So when we got home, he will ignore us for about a half hour, sit there and just lick his paws, give us the silent treatment and not pay us a bit of attention.
Heck yes, they can think evil.
(He'll finally forgive us, come over and lie next to my lap, roll over with his legs straight up in the air and do a playful growl if I don't scratch his belly!)

fixerupper · Jul 14, 2015

I have plugged several Tom cats that were just plain mean. They would come on the farm and bully the other cats around just to establish territory. They even had an evil look in their eyes. Just saw a new one this evening in the barn when I fed the cats so the .22 will be ready tomorrow.

jimg.allentown · Jul 14, 2015

I can only imagine what 30-30 will do to a cat. His head must have exploded.
Isn't that a bit of overkill? I would think a .22 would have been more than enough to dispatch a cat.

Bryce Frazier · Jul 14, 2015

We've got a cat that is like a Marine....

He just lies in wait for his "prey" which, oddly enough, seems to ALWAYS be my shins, sometimes my ankles....

He is about 22 lbs, black and white, and blends in VERY well at night!!

Well, he will actually chase me across the yard during the day, then if I turn around, he will flip around and I will chase him!! He visits me in the shop on occasian. ZERO fear of fire, heat (like the wood stove. . .), loud air tools, equipment, tractors/trucks, etc. Just acts like he owns the world.

Well, last Friday, I went dancing in town. That is over at 10, I was home at 10:45. I am walking across the "parking lot", which it is about 50 feet from where my truck goes to the corner of the house. Along the way, a Corsica and Moms Tahoe are parked there.. I am walking across the lawn, nearly asleep, and all of a sudden my left leg feels like a freakin shark just bit it... omg, scared the living - - - - out of me... I mean bad!!!

Good thing I watered a tree when I got out of the truck, because if I hadn't, I would have wet myself right there!!

I screamed, really bad (I truly was terrified!!!) he let go and ran off... I swear he was laughing all the way.....

Pay back....... I'll get him one day.......

730virgil · Jul 14, 2015

if you have ever been kicked by a cow you will soon think they have evil thoughts how else would they know how and where to kick you?

MichiganMike · Jul 14, 2015

I was walking down the hall in my cousins barns. two barns connected with outside lot butted up to the hall. He had a crazy black angus feeder heifer. She kicked through a gate as I walked by hitting me in the thigh. Of course she had shall I say green stuff on her feet. Cousin saw her do it and ask if I was ok? I said yeh but when you butcher her I want a piece of her azz! LOL MTP...

bison · Jul 15, 2015

(quoted from post at 19:57:43 07/14/15) We've got a little short-haired Chihuahua dog that absolutely HAS to have a car ride every day. For some reason, he's in heaven when he's riding along. There are certain times that he absolutely can't go along. With it being in the upper 90s today, and the car being parked for about an hour in the hot sun, today was one of them. So when we are getting ready to go out, and he's like an Energizer bunny by the front door, it ain't a pretty sight when we say "You've got to stay home". He will sulk back to the couch, crawl on top of his blanket and give us the silent treatment. He won't even look at us as we leave.
So when we got home, he will ignore us for about a half hour, sit there and just lick his paws, give us the silent treatment and not pay us a bit of attention.
Heck yes, they can think evil.
(He'll finally forgive us, come over and lie next to my lap, roll over with his legs straight up in the air and do a playful growl if I don't scratch his belly!)

ounds like our dog,.. acts the same.
It's a pug X.
He's very fond of my Wife, when she's sitting on the couch and The dog lies beside her and i touch her leg or arm the dog gets very protective, dives over and bites my hand but feels sorry he did and then licks it. I can do that over and over again and it never fails

John_PA · Jul 15, 2015

My buddy had a pitbull that was a calm dog for years. My buddy got a good woman one day, and she started staying at the house. No problems from the dog until one day, he was with me at my place, she was alone with the dog...

He got a phone call that the dog pinned her in the shower, and she could not reach the towel. she got out of the shower and before she could reach the towel, the pitbull knocked her down on the floor and tried to mount her. He did this 5 or 6 times, trying to bite her neck, before we got there. When we got there, the dog calmed down, she was crying on the floor. He almost got the job done and left big scratches on her back and legs.

This happened 3 times in 1 month. Never did the dog show any signs of aggression, otherwise. They still have the dog, but it gets locked in a bedroom when she showers. Do I think the dog is evil? I'm not sure, but if anyone else does the same thing, the dog doesn't move from the rug in the living room...

Fawteen · Jul 15, 2015

Three times? Really?

Nobody loves dogs more than me, but that nasty SOB wouldn't have survived the FIRST time at my house.

Allan in NE · Jul 15, 2015

That's just a tad rich. Bet it was the other way around.

Allan

2 Old 2 care · Jul 15, 2015

We've got 3 dogs and 4 birds. (Conure's, a type of small parrot) One is the sweetest thing on earth MOST of the time, but on occasion get's what is best described as the "angry bird" look on its face. When it does, watch out. Someone is gonna get bit. She attacks the other birds, or bites me or the wife. We've learned to spot this "look" and leave her in her cage.

I'll never trust anyone who doesn't like dogs, but I ALWAYS trust dogs when they don't like a certain person. Dogs are a better judge of character than most people.

Blackhole49 · Jul 15, 2015

Chevy man with a Corsica?

dhermesc · Jul 15, 2015

Years back I was talking to my 92 year old uncle about his younger brother.

When they were children back in the teens of the last century they had several work horses on the farm. He remember one old mare named Maude that has a real b**** to work around. She would bite when the boys tried to harness her and would kick at them when hooking her to an impliment just because she could do it to them but never tried that crap with their dad (my grandpa). He remember his younger brother (about 4 at the time) walking up and petting the horse that was in the harness next to Maude because he knew better than to touch her. While he was petting the the "nice" horse Maude reached over and clapped her reeth on his shoulder and flung him 20 feet across the yard breaking his neck when he hit the ground. His dad pick up his son and carried him to house where their mom confirmed that he was indeed dead. Grandpa walked back out to yard and picked up heavy hammer and nailed that mean old b**** in the head killing her with one swing.

Animals can be every bit as mean and evil as humans.

Donald Lehman · Jul 15, 2015

Amen!

Donald Lehman · Jul 15, 2015

All angus are born evil! Lol!

Donald Lehman · Jul 15, 2015

Wasn't angus bulls the reason 1 1/4" pipe was invented for?.........................(smile)

JMOR · Jul 15, 2015

(quoted from post at 09:58:57 07/15/15) Wasn't angus bulls the reason 1 1/4" pipe was invented for?.........................(smile)

ngus bulls & cats!

01gentdc · Jul 15, 2015

after my divorce went home with a square dancing gal one nite,. up to that nite I thought she was a decent gal who liked to talk about her black Labrador,,... some things seemed strange about that gal ..

Bryce Frazier · Jul 15, 2015

Ya??? A Corsica IS a Chevrolet?!

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