I’m not so sure about how “odd” this really is but, it is pretty interesting and borderline hillarious. This came to me via email without any back story. If you know the details, please let me know and I’ll share them on this dite.
Here’s a nice picture of how nature works. It’s a well known fact that feral pigs have become a nuisance all over the country. And, a little known fact is that pigs are omnivorous. After seeing the episode Mike Rowe did on Dirty Jobs where he followed the guy that raised hogs and fed them left overs from Las Vegas casinos, basically, they’ll eat just about anything.
This one apparently was dining on the innards of a downed longhorn steer. Here’s the text from the email I received.
“Seems the old longhorn steer they had got sick, he had to shoot it. Thanksgiving he was back up there and found a pig stuck in the butt-hole. He took a picture of it, the camera noise startled the pig. He then struggled and broke the butt-hold and took off into the woods.”
A piebald whitetail deer was taken near Corsicana Texas. Piebaldism, — sometimes called skewbald — is rare in whitetail deer. If it was a horse we’d call it a “paint” horse. Piebald usually refers to black and white coloration and skewbald then is used for white and non-black colorations. So, I would say the proper term to use here is skewbald. However, the pictures came to me describing the deer as “piebald” so I decided to go with that term.
It’s a beautiful deer regardless of the name you give it.
Unique coloration of mature whitetail buckAnother angle showing the unique colorationA good angle showing the piebald (skewbald) coloration
A lady was saying the other day that she saw a man driving down the I- 35 and a dog was hanging on to the tail gate for dear life. She said if he hadn’t been going so fast in the other direction she would have tried to stop him. A few weeks later her son see’s this truck at the Bass Pro Shop! The truck belongs to a taxidermist!