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84 taken. appeared to have been made with surgical precision by a seasoned practitioner of the art or by a very sharp cutting machine of some type. The visible flesh within the incisions looked somewhat desiccated to my eye ... much as had the flesh on all the other mutilated cattle I had seen, also. Perhaps cauterized, would be the better word. Try to imagine what a raw steak would look like with the blood totally removed from it and the edges of the steak high heat seared. Then you’d have a closer approximation of what I Saw. Normally, a dead animal is a magnet to flies, ants, and larger predators. This cow, even though the summer day in Oklahoma was a normal 95 degrees in the shade, had not one fly on it, no maggots, no beetles. That was typical in most of the mutilation cases. She was displaying a trait in common with all the other mutilated cows we’d looked at. Her hulk repulsed all ants, flies and other insects, as well as all birds. No carrion birds had visited her, either. I’d noted many times that mutilated cows did not deteriorate as quickly as most cows that have died of natural causes. Dogs, cats, and other cows and domesticated animals stay strictly away from animals who have died in this manner... and that includes their calves. If natural and other and causes. COWS a cow is killed by a bullet or in some other more ordinary way, farmers have assured me that the calves most often stay near r their dead mother until the farmer or rancher AToas a attoat As usual, there was no odor, whatsoever. This animal lay completely alone. Nothing moved or chirped or breathed within an approximate hundred-yard radius of her body in every direction, except for me, of Barbara Bartholic as told to Peggy Fielding in other words, a three to four inch circular piece had been There was no visible blood on the cow nor on the ground around her. Each of the bloodless incisions removes them. Not true in the mutilation cases we saw.