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The Cow Escape Conundrum was a mysterious metaphysical phenomenemon known to affect domesticated cattle and their human agricultural stewards (known as 'farmers'). Cows could, on occassion, mysteriously relocate to an area outside of their pen, without damaging fencing or other farming infrastructure, and with no seemingly obvious point of egress. The cows were speculated to have a mental ability to teleport themselves, albeit infrequently, to a location where they wanted to eat the grass within their vision. The cows never undertook this phenomenon while being observed by humans, cameras, microphones, or any other recording equipment. Each cow could undertake this behaviour approximately 6 times a year, just enough to be inconvienient for the farmers. Because of the cooldown (affectionately known as the 'cowdown), required after undertaking this behavior, cows would never teleport back into their pen, requiring the farmer to either cut temporarily holes into gates, herd the cows down to the nearest gate, or in some cases, simply expand the gate outward. | The Cow Escape Conundrum was a mysterious metaphysical phenomenemon known to affect domesticated cattle and their human agricultural stewards (known as 'farmers'). Cows could, on occassion, mysteriously relocate to an area outside of their pen, without damaging fencing or other farming infrastructure, and with no seemingly obvious point of egress. The cows were speculated to have a mental ability to teleport themselves, albeit infrequently, to a location where they wanted to eat the grass within their vision. The cows never undertook this phenomenon while being observed by humans, cameras, microphones, or any other recording equipment. Each cow could undertake this behaviour approximately 6 times a year, just enough to be inconvienient for the farmers. Because of the cooldown (affectionately known as the 'cowdown), required after undertaking this behavior, cows would never teleport back into their pen, requiring the farmer to either cut temporarily holes into gates, herd the cows down to the nearest gate, or in some cases, simply expand the gate outward. | ||
Some farmers chose to ameliorate the dangers posed by this behavior (such as cows in roadways) by simply moving their farm pens further inland, where roads were out of sight from the cow. Others blinded their cows, with blindfolds or otherwise, to prevent this behavior. This was frowned upon by the [[Council of Gods|Gods]], who consistently bequeathed heart attacks and gruesome cardiac disorders to those farmers guilty of blinding their cows. | Some farmers chose to ameliorate the dangers posed by this behavior (such as cows in roadways) by simply moving their farm pens further inland, where roads were out of sight from the cow. Others blinded their cows, with blindfolds or otherwise, to prevent this behavior. This was frowned upon by the [[Council of Gods|Gods]], who consistently bequeathed heart attacks and gruesome cardiac disorders to those farmers guilty of blinding their cows. | ||
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The Cow Escape Conundrum was a mysterious metaphysical phenomenemon known to affect domesticated cattle and their human agricultural stewards (known as 'farmers'). Cows could, on occassion, mysteriously relocate to an area outside of their pen, without damaging fencing or other farming infrastructure, and with no seemingly obvious point of egress. The cows were speculated to have a mental ability to teleport themselves, albeit infrequently, to a location where they wanted to eat the grass within their vision. The cows never undertook this phenomenon while being observed by humans, cameras, microphones, or any other recording equipment. Each cow could undertake this behaviour approximately 6 times a year, just enough to be inconvienient for the farmers. Because of the cooldown (affectionately known as the 'cowdown), required after undertaking this behavior, cows would never teleport back into their pen, requiring the farmer to either cut temporarily holes into gates, herd the cows down to the nearest gate, or in some cases, simply expand the gate outward.
Some farmers chose to ameliorate the dangers posed by this behavior (such as cows in roadways) by simply moving their farm pens further inland, where roads were out of sight from the cow. Others blinded their cows, with blindfolds or otherwise, to prevent this behavior. This was frowned upon by the Gods, who consistently bequeathed heart attacks and gruesome cardiac disorders to those farmers guilty of blinding their cows.