Fences or leashes? Few families use fences of barbed wire to keep their livestock at home. Instead the livestock – pigs, goats, cows – are tethered by a short rope tied to their back leg. Most are tethered just within reach of the main road. I’
d heard a story about how elephants learned not to leave an area by having this same kind of rope tied to their hind leg. After a while they always thought that rope was there so they quit trying to escape. Apparently the cows hadn’t heard this story because many a cow could be seen straining against a rope with its one leg stretched way out behind.
Occasionally a stray cow or goat could be found with its tether dragging limply behind. The common donkey, this one lounging mid-road, usually works hard for his keep.
Fences or leashes? Few families use fences of barbed wire to keep their livestock at home. Instead the livestock – pigs, goats, cows – are tethered by a short rope tied to their back leg. Most are tethered just within reach of the main road. I’
d heard a story about how elephants learned not to leave an area by having this same kind of rope tied to their hind leg. After a while they always thought that rope was there so they quit trying to escape. Apparently the cows hadn’t heard this story because many a cow could be seen straining against a rope with its one leg stretched way out behind. 
Occasionally a stray cow or goat could be found with its tether dragging limply behind. The common donkey, this one lounging mid-road, usually works hard for his keep.
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