Loading Cows

We had to load two cows today
To bring to the butcher. I helped.
The old one got in without much fuss,
For a cow.

The young one had no desire to enter.
This is the normal issue for animals:
They don’t want to enter a dark cave
With a hollow-sounding floor.

We once had a boar corralled tight and ready.
Rather than take the easy, direct way in,
Up the ramp to where food awaited,
He turned to the side,
Got his nose under the cattle panel barrier and,
With the brute force of desperation,
Forced his 400 pounds underneath.
Pigs are all muscle
And have a low center of gravity.
They go where they please.

Loading animals is stressful,
Even for the humans. And we aren’t going to be
Slaughtered.