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travel in a tightly wound blob,
sort of like a school of fish.
At the slaughterhouse, when the
slaughterman steps onto the trailer to unload the lambs, My Pretty
Girl will get scared and turn with
the rest of her group and scurry up
to the far end of the trailer away
from the slaughterman, who will
walk slowly and calmly up the
length of the trailer so that he can
get behind the lambs. My Pretty
Girl will then rush back to the
other end of the trailer while the
slaughterman walks slowly behind
them, saying “Come on sheep,”
and making “woosshh, wissshhhh,
wissssh” sounds. The lambs will
hop down out of the trailer and
anxiously walk the length of the
chute into one of the holding pens
inside the building.
In an hour or two depending on
how busy the slaughterhouse is,
the slaughterman will reappear.
He will gently herd the lambs out
of the holding pen into the kill
chute, which is a narrow aisle that
forces the lambs into single file.
Within a few minutes of herding
My Pretty Girl into the kill chute
the slaughterman will quickly and
confidently place a captive bolt
stun gun against her forehead
and pull the trigger. The gun will
BOB
COMIS
HUFFINGTON
11.17.13
There is a lamb on the
farm that I call My Pretty Girl.
She is the cutest, most adorable
thing I have ever seen. She has
the whitest, cleanest, most
delicately-featured face you can
imagine... And, while skittish,
she is quite bold and curious.”
make a loud popping sound and
My Pretty Girl, the cutest, sweetest, most adorable little lamb you
can imagine, will drop like a stone.
It will have been a very stressful
morning for her, anyone who denies that is a liar, a fool, or worse,