First off, a Lee County, Virginia farmer is offering $500 for information about the mutilation and killing of one of his cows this past weekend. This is the second incident of this sort for the area in the past month, and police are investigating. In both cases, the killer murdered the animal, then sliced off her teats individually (in one instance, the ears were also removed).

Meanwhile, across the pond, the owner of a stud farm in Scotland has had 27 of her horses' manes and tails cut off by unknown assailants. The attacks have recurred over the past few months, with no new information. Four years ago, a number of similar cases in various parts of north-east Scotland were linked to an occult, black magic ritual.

-Times News: Lee farmer offers reward for information in cattle slayings, mutilations
-Scotsman: Mystery of attacks on 27 horses at stud farm