Get Your FREE SNUGGLES At Yellowstone, July 15th

According to the Yellowstone Park website, July 15th is National Petting Day Competition at Yellowstone.

What could go wrong?

If you're thinking that this is a real thing, then you don't understand SCARCASM!

For the people who still don’t get it, the National Park Service recently spelled out – for the zillionth time in the zillionth way – the stern, common-sense advice to avoid approaching bison as if they are the family dog.

Your close, homebody pal loves it when you pet it. Bison, not so much. The thing to remember – bison are wild.

A few years ago, Yellowstone put out this helpful petting chart.

It is apparently not enough that visitors to the Park are handed a flyer at entrances containing a multi-language, colored-paper warning with the illustration of a bison tossing a human being into the air with its horns.

That is known as a hint to stay clear. That is known as a great big “Watch out!” message.

The Park Service wishes people would not approach within 100 yards of a big 1,500-pound-to-2,000-pound brute like that.

It’s for visitors’ own good – for their own benefit. It’s so they can stay safe. Bison can sprint as fast as Usain Bolt. They may look as friendly as your dog, but up close and personal, they are not and may well head-butt you.

After a couple of ill-advised recent occasions when people in Yellowstone and elsewhere around the country set out to pet bison, the National Park Service in Washington, D.C., has increased the intensity of its displeasure, but announced it in a humorous, albeit sarcastic manner.