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AUFORA - Cattle Mutilations
MUSTANG - Owners said no cause can be found for the two
mutilated black cattle, which were found dead in fields
about 60 miles apart, following a full moon.
he cattle, in Canadian and Blaine counties, had their
sex organs removed.
ustang Police Chief Ron Lewis said his office
recently investigated the mutilation of a 1,100- pound
Angus cow. Blaine County Undersheriff Kent Sexton said
his office was called to the ranch of Galen Slagell near
Hydro the same morning to investigate the mutilation of
a 70-pound Angus steer. Although Lewis said he is not
versed on cults, he thinks some type of cult
celebration that coincides with Passover might be
responsible for the mutilations. Lewis and Sexton
said their investigations turned up some similarities. No
blood was found at the scene of either mutilation, and
Lewis and Sexton said both cattle appeared to be "drained
of blood." The interior and exterior sex organs, tongues
and one eye from each animal had been removed. The cow
found in Canadian County was missing her left ear and
a patch of hide over her ribs on the right side. The
cow's owner, who asked not to be identified, said he
wonders what "idiots" would mutilate an animal, and he
would like to have the cow's death solved. He said he
checked his cattle the evening before the mutilation. "I
had just worked them and I knew I didn't have any sick
ones. When I went to check them, I saw her and I knew she
was dead by the way she was laying." He said he was
angry at first because he thought someobe had shot her
and left her for the coyotes. A closer look showed him
the mutilation was not the work of coyotes. There were
some droPs of blood on the ground, but no blood came from
any of the wounds. He said this was odd because when
someone shoots a cow, a death struggle occurs and there
is a lot of blood. He also said the cow was in an
area of dirt and there were no tracks, neither human or
animal around her.
"When I walked up, I left tracks," he said.
He said he checked the animal carefully and could not
find a cause of death. The cow's death will continue to
be a problem. Her 4-month-old calf, which would not
normally be weaned for another two months, now will not
grow as rapidly, and the cow had been bred and was about
two months pregnant. Undersheriff Sexton said it had
rained before the steer was found near Hydro and the
ground was soft. "There were no prints,'i Sexton said. He
said he has been around cattle all his life, and "this
wasn't coyotes." Ranch owner Slagell agreed: "I don't
know of any coyotes that carry knives." Sexton said
veterinarian Tim Lowry also couldn't find a bullet hole.
"We're baffled." he said. Although Lowry said, "There
definitely was a human hand involved," Slagell said he
was still not ruling out the possibility that the
mutilation could have been done by vultures. : But Blaine
County Assistant District attorney George Burnett said
the steer "obviously was surgically cut ... If someone
saw something, it may help us solve the case."