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[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 week ago (1 children)

One time, we all got hauled out to someone's farm, for ag class, to watch pigs get castrated. A student was handling all the procedures until they got to the the likely prize show pig another student owned. The teachers husband took over and preformed the procedure. That likely prize pig, and only that pig, died that day. Rumor had it, that he purposefully botched the procedure so his own kid could win.

Im just sitting here wondering why this is making the rounds, except for this girl got caught. This is the par for the course and happens more often than one would think.

[–] Nuke_the_whales 35 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Fucked up hillbillies poisoning each other's animals is normal? Damn it america

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The show world can get super competitive. If you end up with a prize animal, you can bring home a good amount of money from auction.

Not to mention, for some, its very personal due to the time invested. These kids can put sometimes up to a year, if not more, into raising an animal for a show. They feed them special and care for them in very serious ways, to make them look perfect for a show. It's like beauty pagent moms, but with kid brains.

[–] coriza 7 points 1 week ago

I feel like there is a line somewhere between sabotaging your competition to get ahead on this year competition and doing something to end the competition career of your adversaries.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

The number one reported crime shown on the public police blotter site in the small town I used to live in was motherfuckers shooting their dogs.

[–] CluckN 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Damn Americans and their rolls dice corrupt show animal handling