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Instructions unclear, engaged high range while in reverse.

Only 26 speeds? That’s pathetic. 32 speed transmissions are easily possible, do exist, and are less complicated to use than you might think, and the Morse shifter suggests.

A Standard heavy truck 16 speed transmission, combined with an off-road reduction in the transfer case, as very common in all wheel drives, will do the trick. This will additionally give you at very least 4 speeds in reverse. (Technically, at least 8 reverse speeds, but most transmissions have a lock-out that prevents reverse and high range from being engaged at the same time)

If you’re seeing a heavy 6x6 or 8x8 truck at a construction site, it very likely has this kind of transmission arrangement.

Pigs won’t have the slightest problem with doing so. For feeding someone to chickens, some preparation might be needed due to the chickens’ small size.

Meat never was a staple food for large parts of the population in most places until relatively recent.

You would. Once the ox got too old to do useful work. (or injured) That’s what happened to old work horses, too. As well as to old milk cows. Of course meat from old animals tends to be of lower quality, so this tended to be sold off relatively cheap and often provided the only affordable meat for poor people.

Dogs and cats are carnivores. We don’t eat carnivores in general, regardless of domestication.

The problem with eating carnivores (and to some extent, omnivores) lies in the diseases they can carry (pork for instance has to be inspected for trichinosis), and accumulation of environmental toxins in their meat due to their position at the top of the food chain. Also, they tend to be more expensive to raise due to their food requirements.

The further up in the food chain an animal resides, the more scrutiny its meat needs in order to be safe to eat. For carnivores, that’s usually not worth the effort, as there isn’t all that much meat in a domestic cat or dog.

The only odd one out are horses, who we don’t eat in spite of them not being carnivores.

That’s really very much a cultural thing. In many cultures, horse meat used to be poor man’s meat, because you need to get rid of old horses unfit for work in one way or another and not eating the meat would be a waste, but meat of old animals usually isn’t necessarily of the best quality, so it was sold for relatively cheap. Over time, with declining reliance on horses as work animals, the availability of horse meat has declined and it turned into somewhat of a rare delicacy. Especially since the growing leisure horse industry doesn’t contribute a whole lot of horse meat fit for human consumption due to the medications used on leisure horses accumulating in the meat and not being exactly healthy for people.

If you remember the European horse meat scandal (a discount supermarket chain had been selling “beef” lasagna that contained horse meat instead of beef, the problem there wasn’t that the product was in any way unhealthy or dangerous, it was quality horse meat mislabeled as beef. It really was just a matter of deliberate mislabeling.