floofloof@lemmy.ca to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoUS man, 81, sentenced to six months for creating giant hybrid sheep for huntingwww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square20fedilinkarrow-up190arrow-down12cross-posted to: chapotraphouse@hexbear.netbiodiversity@mander.xyz
arrow-up188arrow-down1external-linkUS man, 81, sentenced to six months for creating giant hybrid sheep for huntingwww.theguardian.comfloofloof@lemmy.ca to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square20fedilinkcross-posted to: chapotraphouse@hexbear.netbiodiversity@mander.xyz
minus-squareHomerianSymphony@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up25arrow-down1·2 months agoOh. He wants to hunt to the sheep. He wants to create them, let them loose, and then hunt them. I was imagining the sheep would be his hunting companion, like he’s a modern day Paul Bunyan with a giant sheep instead of an ox.
minus-squareMonument@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoWell now I’m thinking of Babe the Blue Ox as being a mighty hunter. Maybe they call him the blue ox because he crushes his victims to death (starving them of oxygen!), leaving them blue?!
Oh. He wants to hunt to the sheep. He wants to create them, let them loose, and then hunt them.
I was imagining the sheep would be his hunting companion, like he’s a modern day Paul Bunyan with a giant sheep instead of an ox.
Well now I’m thinking of Babe the Blue Ox as being a mighty hunter.
Maybe they call him the blue ox because he crushes his victims to death (starving them of oxygen!), leaving them blue?!