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[Mike Tomlinson]

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Coffee, nose, keyboard.

Thanks. :)

[damduck-egg]

I always understood it was Dairy Cattle who could be the more lairy, certainly our Devon Reds always seemed more gentler than the Freiseins that came along later. Where public footpaths cross fields it is the Bulls of dairy breeds like Freisians, Holsteins and those sweet looking Jerseys and Guernseys that are prohibited to be in them, Beef breeds though they may be much larger are allowed if there are accompanying Cows, though if the animal has a history of being aggresive it should not be and could influence any action if someone was hurt.

A lot of attacks are because the cow sees a dog as a threat to its young, its instinct. If a walker has a dog on a lead some unfortunately try and protect their Pet . In reality if things have got to that stage its best to let the dog go and hopefully the Cow will follow the dog, the dog unless it's old and ill will stand a far better chance of getting away than a Human most of whom won't be able to outrun a cow.

G.Harman

[harry]

Townies know nothing. If you go near a herd of cows/calves with a dog, you and the dog stand an excellent chance of being attacked. They will knock you down and stick their horns in. Or just trample you. They are easily capable of killing you. They can run faster than you too.

[harry]

[Tim Lamb]

Interesting. Thanks for that. Bit more detail on the footpaths issue would have been nice.

Current advice is if approached by cattle, let the dog go free. The NFU are nervous about detailed advice as it may be thought to lead to an admission of some sort.

Cattle are curious and may simply hope that the visitor has brought food or is going to open a gate to fresh pasture etc. Running invites them to follow...

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[Tim Streater]

No no, that's sheep that roost.

[stvlcnc43]

Yeah well, if they're daft enough to walk under the trees where they're roosting...

[Nightjar]

I'm going by what a vet told me, while she was batting Highland cattle out of our way on a footpath, many years ago. She told me that, because they have to be milked, dairy cows are more familiar with human contact and are, therefore, less wary of humans. Also, over the centuries, British cattle have been bred to be more docile than most of the continental breeds.

[John Rumm]

I heard a (possibly apocryphal) tale of a man who had his car written off by a cow... He slowly following a herd being walked down a country lane for milking. One large old dear decided to take umbridge and sat on the bonnet of the car ;-)

[Chris Hogg]

A colleague at work had a cow fall onto his car. He was driving home one evening, down a narrow Cornish lane that was deep-set down from the fields either side. A cow, browsing on the hedge, over-reached herself, lost her balance or footing, and crashed down just as he was passing. I can't remember the outcome, either for the cow or the car, but cows do occasionally fall down cliffs hereabouts, and get winched back up by the fire brigade, seemingly unharmed, so they're pretty robust creatures.

[spuorgelgoog]

Citroen C5 was written off after a cow leaped three feet over a fence and crashed into the bonnet, breaking a wheel. The cow was trying to escape a farmer when it escaped into the road in Leeds

Owain

[Andrew]

Cows with calves need to be given a wide berth, especially if you have a dog.

Limousin cows and cattle are notably exiteable, while most other dairy cows will walk away if you approach them.

[Chris Hogg]

Young heifers will approach you with interest, en masse and often at speed, and can be intimidating, but will back away if you face them and walk towards them. Happened to me on several occasions. You just have to keep your nerve! On one occasion after shooing them away, I noticed one of them was much larger than the rest, a big black beastie, with a significantly different appendage underneath! He was perfectly docile and ignored me completely, and wandered away with the rest of them. (An Aberdeen Angus bull as it happened, one of these