Hahaha... Yep, cows'll do that to ya! lol We live on a big, steep coulee bank and there's a fair-sized creek at the bottom. We were sorting our heifers, choosing which ones we wanted to keep and which we wanted to sell. Anyways, there was this pretty little red Angus cross heifer. Beautiful conformation, good mother. But she was nuts. She tried to take us a few times. I told dad there was no way i was keeping her around but he was determined. So he put her in the keeper pen. The first one in that pen. So she was crazy and riled up to begin with so she was running around looking for a hole. Then finally she just up and jumped the 7-foot plank corral with a good foot or so to spare! And she was gone! Well, she went down into the coulee and we went looking for her. Then about 15 minutes later, I got a call on my cell phone from the guy who lived across the coulee saying he had one of our heifers. We went over there and sure enough, it was her! It took her 15 minutes to get across the coulee, where it takes me and my horse closer to an hour and a half to get across! My dad decided then that maybe it wasn't such a good idea to keep her around... LOL Yeah, the whole BSE situation had a huge impact here. Most of it was just the media playing it up to be a big pandemic, but it had a gigantic effect here. The boarder being shut didn't help matters at all either, since most cows sold in Canada wind up in the States. Back before BSE, everyone and their dog had a fairly large herd of cattle, now I really gotta think who's still in the business... I wrote a speech on the short and long term effects of BSE in Alberta this year for 4-H. And I also presented it at some local beef producer meetings and toastmasters and I just got an invitation to present it to the Alberta Beef Producers. (ABP is the biggest cattle group in Canada) I've had people cry at the end. BSE has NOT been fun... But you just kinda take the tractor another round and hope it gets better...