March 21, 2008: Holy Cow
 

Actually it's not Holy Cow, it's Holey Cow.
Well technically it's fistulated cows.
Cows that have had a fistula (porthole) surgically installed, so researchers, and lurkers, can see the digestion process in one of the cows 4 stomachs.
No, it doesn't hurt them and in reality, in exchange for this indignity, they lead long and pampered lives.
http://cellar.org/2008/fistulatedcows.jpg
Having witnessed this several times during my misspent youth, I can personally attest, it smells much worse inside the cow than it does when it comes out the back end. :whofart:

...cow tipping, then?

So how much better trained is a veterinary than a people doc?

Michigan State (among others maybe) had a cow with a glass bubble for a belly.

Ohhh, pierced bloated cow is the worse smell ever. It stays in your nostril for days.

Whodathunk grass could smell that bad.

i would be easy for these cows to diet. it must be easier if they can, literally, watch what they eat.

for me, the smell would be sufficient.

But nothing more than %15...cheap bastards.

Anyone who forgot to remove the flowers from their desk over a long weekend in a heated office. [retch]

Being a DVM is just as, if not more complicated then being an MD since you have to absolutely KNOW all aspects of total health. Unlike most human medical professions where you can specialize in one particular area.

One of our docs thinks vets are much better trained that MDs, at least as diagnosticians ... for the most part, a vet's patient can't tell him where it hurts or described symptoms.

Around here, a lot of DVMs limit their practice to certain types of critters, usually ones kept as household pets. If you have an exotic or large animal, they refer you to another vet, or a University animal hospital.

But you're right, val5150, in that the animals they do treat, they have to know everything about them. Everything about a dog is a lot different than everything about a turtle or parakeet. That's a lot of learning!

Did anyone watch the video? The hole leaks. Yuck. What about flies getting in there? Does the 'porthole' have a lid?

:D Yes, they have lids, removed for pictures.

Oh, and welcome to the Cellar, Kasszia.

Looks like a washing machine. Can't wait for the spin cycle....

Thanks!
 

Thank you Bruce. I've been lurking for better part of a month now.

Only the first post feels perverted, smooth sailing from here on. :D

First we had the goatse now we have a cowsee.

ixnayontehgoatse

I compromised -no linkie :D (and no photoshop of the ruminant.....)

all my brain's telling me right now is "beef stew beef stew beef stew"

That doesn't hurt? Yeah, ok.

Doesn't hurt the cows? I don't think they can really say that... after all, the cow can't tell them one way or the other. It looks extremely cruel to me. Poor cows. And they don't look very pampered to me... :(

Unpampered cow.

Both look tasty

I've seen lots of animals express quite loudly and violently that they are in pain. This is why they have to confine them very tightly for other procedures, like artificial insemination.

...if it hurts, you're not doing it right...

When I had my cows inseminated, I just held them by the halter and got drooled on, while the guy with a rubber glove up to his shoulder, did his thing.
Yeah, they made cow eyes at me too.