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ellisonz

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Sun Jan 15, 2012, 11:42 PM Jan 2012

Yaks Popular With Owners for Ease, Versatility [View all]

By Jackie Jadrnak / Journal North Reporter on Sun, Jan 15, 2012
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ARROYO SECO — Back in 2005, Joy Robertshaw accompanied a friend to a border collie competition in Cortez, Colo., wandered over to a livestock pen and spotted her first yak.

It was love at first sight.

Now, she has three of the creatures munching alfalfa and grass hay on an acre or two next to her Taos County home, with a herd of another 75 to 80 pastured in southern Colorado while she searches out land in northern New Mexico where she can keep them herself.

“I do really love what I do,” said the native New Zealander. “I should have started this years and years ago.”

http://www.abqjournal.com/main/2012/01/15/north/yaks-popular-with-owners-for-ease-versatility.html

Doesn't this just make you want a yak?

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I know a guy who bought a house where Yaks were previously kept Mopar151 Jan 2012 #1
I hear they don't talk back. n/t dimbear Jan 2012 #2
you're a clown Tuesday Afternoon Jan 2012 #6
Yak milk and cheese is really, really good! JCMach1 Jan 2012 #3
Yak meat is wonderful Autumn Jan 2012 #4
Yaks!! Fuck Yeah!! Tuesday Afternoon Jan 2012 #5
An excellent poem from 1896, stating much the same... Glorfindel Jan 2012 #7
That's a great poem... ellisonz Jan 2012 #8
And WHO can forget... nolabear Jan 2012 #9
Our country reeks of trees hifiguy Jan 2012 #11
Boy this takes me back. Robb Jan 2012 #10
Yak, yak, yak hifiguy Jan 2012 #12
Is a Yak one of those new Asian automobiles? LiberalEsto Jan 2012 #13
please don't keep us in suspense Enrique Jan 2012 #14
I think was free for awhile and then went subscription. ellisonz Jan 2012 #15
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