Another Cattle Mutilation in Pondera County, Montana

"The mutilated cow looked like she fell from the sky, hit the ground and bounced to the north, but the stubble underneath her body was bent south."

- Pondera County Sheriff, Tom Kuka, Conrad, Montana

October 17, 2006  Valier, Montana - Thirty years ago in 1975-1976, there were so many cattle mutilations in Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico and other parts of the United States that sheriffs reported some mutilated carcasses were still warm to touch. All the cows, steers, bulls or heifers were usually missing an ear, eye, jaw flesh, tongue, genitals and rectal/vaginal area. Law enforcement often described the cuts as looking like they had been done with a "cookie cutter," or "surgical."