{"id":1651,"date":"2010-10-14T16:55:40","date_gmt":"2010-10-14T15:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/?p=1651"},"modified":"2012-05-29T21:51:59","modified_gmt":"2012-05-29T20:51:59","slug":"silly-old-cow-skids-to-a-halt-to-halt-cow-cruelty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/2010\/10\/silly-old-cow-skids-to-a-halt-to-halt-cow-cruelty\/","title":{"rendered":"Silly old cow skids to a halt to halt cow cruelty."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Screeched the car to a halt at the side of the road today. Flora, one of my dogs flew past my ear from the backseat the other one, Sammy the half wit lab,  slid onto the floor behind the drivers seat with a thud. But I had no choice. I had to do an emergency stop when I saw these coos.<br \/>\nLook! Skin and bone and a depressed looking fizzog.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1657\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1657\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/P1050169.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1657\" title=\"P1050169\" src=\"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/P1050169-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/P1050169-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/P1050169.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1657\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bones poking out! Sunken horror.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Got home, downloaded the photograph and sent it to my pal Shaun &#8211; a farmer in Dingwall. 35 seconds after I had uploaded it I phoned him in a state of panic. Something must be done ! I shreiked.There is deep cruelty in the Scottish countryside.<br \/>\nOK I will have a look he said. 30 seconds later the phone went.<br \/>\n&#8216;They&#8217;re supposed to be<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1662\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1662\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/P1040556.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1662\" title=\"P1040556\" src=\"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/P1040556-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/P1040556-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/P1040556.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1662\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Half dog half womble giving me the evil eye<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>like that&#8217;.<br \/>\nReally?<br \/>\n&#8216;Aye. Really. They are Jersey dairy cows and that&#8217;s how they look&#8217;.<br \/>\nJust thought I&#8217;d show you in a bid to save your brake pads, camera memory stick and most importantly dogs noses. Half dog, half womble Flora is still not speaking to me as the memory, along with the noseprint on the windscreen, lingers long. It would be fair and accurate to say\u00a0 her nose is out of joint. Literally.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Screeched the car to a halt at the side of the road today. Flora, one of my dogs flew past my ear from the backseat&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25],"tags":[252,247,844,242,843,842],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1651"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}