As you can see, Snort has a pretty good sized pair of horns on him. (In addition to the pink tongue.)Today, I was reminded that respecting large animals is important. If you forget basic safety rules, you can get hurt. I was feeding Snort out of bucket whilst in the paddock with him, and he was being rude, so I took it away. He got mad and flung his head. In the process, he managed to catch under my coat and pick me up. (I'm not a small person; I don't get picked up a lot, so that was no fun.) There was a lot of yelling, and luckily I had a friend with me, to grab the big black stick of "bad yak". No, I didn't hit him with the stick, I just gesticulated and shouted and he ran off.
So, that was dumb of me. Never forget that yaks have big horns and are greedy with their food. Respect the yak!
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