A Small Striped Dear…[New Zebra Foal in Lost Coast Herd Near Petrolia]
On May 13, 2017, one of the herd, Randy, was shot with a single bullet. The shooter has not yet been located in spite of an over $5000 reward.
Then, a month later, another foal was born to Josephine, the matriarch zebra. That little foal has grown and the foal pictured above is now the fourth striped occupant of the field.
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How wonderful!
Fantastic! Thanks for the post and Happy New Year.
Can someone explain to me how we have a wild zebra herd?
I was wondering the same thing.
What makes you think they’re wild?
As I recall they are privately owned by the person who owns the property.
Scientologists.
NOT the Scientologists….Randy the stallion was killed last year, this foal is a zonkey…they are tame, Randy was in a Heineken commercial. They are tame, which makes Randy’s Murder even worse!
They are not wild. They are livestock on private property.
Livestock are domesticated animals raised in an agricultural setting to produce labor and commodities such as meat, eggs, milk, fur, leather, jewellery and wool. The term is sometimes used to refer solely to those that are bred for consumption, while other times it refers only to farmed ruminants, such as cattle and goats.
Agriculture side note:
On January 6, 1936, the Supreme Court declared the Agricultural Adjustment Act unconstitutional because the AAA processing taxes were to support a system of federal regulation of agriculture, which is outside the powers the Constitution had delegated to Congress.
Events soon proved just the opposite. By May of 1937, the ‘packed’ Supreme Court began its rubber stamp approval of Prez. Roosevelt’s New Deal measures.
Headlines on the front page of the New York Times on May 25, 1937 heralded the official inauguration of the new Welfare State. “SUPREME COURT BACKS SECURITY ACT AND JOB INSURANCE.” Roosevelt now had his Supreme Court majority in favor of the New Deal.
Roosevelt’s plan to pack the court never was put into action. The same number of justices reversed their stance and shot down the challenges to FDR’s agenda.
Wow, What a surprise! HumCo’s writing essays without doing any research… Again! Check out the Wi-Fi In Old town article, where he claims firefighters don’t use radios because of the radiation they produce.
he said cell towers and you switched it to radio towers there is a differance. however in your vendetta against him you misread much of what is said.
“The reason there are no radiation antenna/towers on fire stations is because the firemen are smarter than the average bear.”
Fire houses have all kinds of “radiation antennas” on them. Since the article is about internet routers, it I think its safe to say firehouse have plenty of transmitters more powerful than that.
Good lord. Is the point to mob like a pack of hyenas? The mistake of assuming something is a fact because “everyone knows it” is certainly common enough. She said so. Continuing to attack is just viciousness for self aggrandizement.
HumCo has a serious making-things-up problem. Two people correcting his bullshit (again) is hardly a mob.
and you dont have bs yourself ?clean your own house before cleaning anothers
Sorry guys I’ll be nicer to compulsive liars from here on out.
Wow that’s great .
I wanna come play music and dance with the herd. Do zebras ever let sweet people ride them?
Dear?
As in sweet little creature—I was attempting to be punny. Apparently it didn’t work for you?
I had a hearty chuckle. Your pun was appreciated. 😊
Oh deer, what can the matter be?
I thought it was clever and cute. I know we don’t want to be mean anymore, but I thought the wordplay was obvious. I guess we all see things through our own prism. Depression is so common and we all carry heavy burdens.
Oh, um, er, hehehe! It must have been a headlights thing.
Does not say deer.
Just ‘up the hill’ are (maybe) a couple ‘Scientology’ buildings.
Building is indeed a scientology fortress..what is above ground is minimal……the zebra ranch has no connection to that
such unstable grounds with the plates and the sediments they chose to excavate into. the irony.
They knew what they were doing when they built it. The inside if the vault is hinged plates that move with the quakes. One person that happened to be inside during one episode said it was like being in the belly of a big snake.
I don’t know if it’s built on hinged plates, but my father poured concrete for that building and he told me the walls they did were 18 inches of solid concrete. He also had to sign a non-disclosure just to work there.
Which he broke and you outed him for, lol
Zebra ranch is not anywhere near the Scientology “vault.”
Unrelated.
About 1/3 (+-) of a mile between them.
The ranch is privately owned and not by scientologists. It was for sale last year but I don’t know if it sold or not.
Maybe the scientologists sold out, but there was a Scientologist storage vault installed near Petrolia in the late ‘80’s – 90’s. You can look it up. I think it’s still there.
It’s still there, the complete archives of every damn word ol’ ronnie spoke or wrote, to be preserved in perpetuity. Apparently it also includes a house for the reincarnation of L. Ron to be raised in…
maybe this zebra donkey is ron hubbard ….
This is awesome!!! I looked for the herd a month ago when I was down that way, but didnt see them Stay safe beautiful ones
Beautiful! What a gift.💙 Stay safe little one. Who cares who pastures them! They’re precious. [edit] Thanks for posting kym. Happy new year!🎉🎊💐💙💙💙💙💙
Happy New Year to you, too!
Maybe the A-hole sociopaths can keep from shooting them this time
What boned Josephine now that Randy’s dead?
Crude remark, but a donkey.
Or her own offspring. No one mentioned a resident donkey. Maybe those who see them all the time know.
Whoever shot Randy is a world class POS.
So sad, and I agree….who could shoot a TAME zebra….perhaps the same who shot the 4 Elk….
Invasive species? Think about it.
Zonkies are sterile.
The article said that the male zebra was killed and a month later the foal was born to a zebra mother. That is not a hybrid. If the foal that was born after the stud was shot was male, this years foal could have been sired by that one and thus be a pure zebra too.
Has anyone questioned the donkey regarding Randy’s murder? Randy appears to have been the only thing standing between the donkey and hot zebra action.
His not having been born yet is a pretty solid alibi for a striped suspect. That and the lack of a trigger finger.
One-and-a-half unique individuals does not a stable gene pool make.
I doubt that is the goal of the owners.
Ok, except the baby purebred would have to be over a year to breed, the second mom was prob bred by the deceased zebra, gesturing 11 months i think, can’t remember when he was murdered.
Most Hybrid animals are sterile such as Mules, which are a mix of Horse & Donkey!!!
Zebra Ranch! I thought I was the only one calling it that, so much better than the last nickname. 🙂
pardon me , i know they are cute but i am suprised that there isnt outrage about this. they are not native here, have no purpose being here. just imagine if everyone that wants one brings one in…. again as i said before this is how bad things start. one person or family decides then it starts a trend and before you know it things get out of hand. if one person is allow exotic pets then all must be allowed .
Zonkies are sterile.
While male hybrids are sterile, female hybrids are not always so.
Almost always. Zebras and donkeys have a different number of chromasomes, and even the fertile ones are described as “poorly fertile.”
None of these animals are native, zebras or donkeys. If left to their own devices, their limited gene pool means they will be out-competed by more genetically stable equine species in the long run.
The only real solution is to bring in a pride of lions to combat the problem. If lions aren’t available, dions (donkey/lion crosses) might be able to handle these zonkeys. Either way I’m sure it will go better than that time I swallowed a fly.
and here i was thinking we could just raffle off a tag or 2. the proceeds could go to help the houseless or maybe help repair the enviroment or something
We have indiginous lions.
Thanks! Love your humor, Stars. So many people using this as a platform for their personal grudges — lighten up, SoHum! Save that righteous indignation for a relevant post; one will be appearing any minute.
Glad you enjoyed! 🙂
Happy New Year to all. May it be filled with love and laughter.
Also, I still don’t trust the donkey. I think he’s a jackass.
Are your dogs native?
No but they are locals, born and raised. 🙂
is half the products in the stores ?
but that brings up a great point. we have millions of hungery people in this country maybe we should use the meat ie healthly protein from the kill shelters and feed folks with it instead of wasting itwhile people go hungery
Horses and cows aren’t native either. Oops.
so we should harvest and eat horses and cows as well. wait a minute we already do that to cows. now just need to add horse cat and dog. oh and zebra
Um yeah..get a life. Neither are horse s when you think about it, there are 20,000 zebras in USA
sounds like we need a federal grant to clean this problem up. maybe even get people to donate their time , much like the grass on the dunes .
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