Rosa Bonheur: Two Teams of Oxen Plowing

 Plowing in the Nivernais
Rosa Bonheur
1849

North Dakota Monitor Grain Drill Hitched to Team of Four Oxen

Monitor Grain Drill  Hitched to Four Oxen
           Fred Hultstrand History in Pictures Collection, NDIRS-NDSU, Fargo, North Dakota

Single Ox Plowing With Walking Plow and Forecart, 1921 Photograph

Single Ox Plowing With Walking Plow and Forecart, 1921
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

Single Ox Plowing With Walking Plow and Forecart, 1921
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

Scout the Ox Helping Prepare Tree Cuttings --- Herd-Mates?

What cattle do when they are not eating is hang-out together. When I have a portable project to work on I use the opportunity to give Scout the Ox some "herd" time.  It helps makes for a happy ox. Here I'm preparing willow tree cuttings for planting, with Scout looking over my shoulder.

Just as dogs are pack animals, cattle are herd animals. A healthy dog and a healthy cow both like a small circle of family and friends. When we people, by the use of fences, barns and kennels, take that away from them, I think it our due to provide some substitute. Scout's herd mates consist of me and Harry the Dog. As unlikely as two predators keeping company with a prey animal is, by my estimation, he seems quite happy with the arrangement. As a qualifier, I might add that these are two highly domesticated animals, I wouldn't expect this to work with say  --- a wolf and a white tailed deer, though, I am aware of  dogs being kept with lions. A further qualifier: I don't favor wild animals being kept. 

Good Friends-Lion and Dog
published 1893
by
Paul Friedrich Meyerheim, artist   and     Richard Brend'amour, engraver
Source: Mid-Manhattan Picture Collection

1866 Oxen Ladies French Print --- Dorothy Goethe

Mother With Infant Riding in Ox Drawn Hay Wagon.  French Print
Dorothy Goethe 1866  L'Ilustration

Scout the Ox and Your's Truly, Oklee, Minnesota, USA

Scout the Ox and Your's Truly

Oklee, Minnesota, USA --- Skyline View

Dog Escapes Pasture He Shares With Ox

Harry the Dog is not built for jumping or digging, but for a while now he has been showing up, on occasion, outside the pasture fence. I walked the fence line in the deep snow, looking for tracks that would tell me where he was getting out, but found none. One day watching from the house I saw him climb over the hay feeder. So I set up the camera, tempted him with his deer skin, and waited. It didn't take long before I got this video.