Posted on 08/25/2009 2:20:52 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
LONDON (Reuters) – The deaths of no fewer than four people after being trampled by cows in the past two months has prompted Britain's main farming union to issue a warning about the dangers of provoking the normally docile animals.
Cows can become aggressive and charge, especially when calves are present and walkers are accompanied by dogs, said the National Farmers Union (NFU).
The union and the Ramblers' Association both advise that walkers release dogs from their leads when passing through a field of cows.
"The cattle are interested in the dog, not the walker," said Robert Sheasby, Rural Surveyor at the NFU.
"As the cattle try to get the dog, there's a high chance they will get the walker too."
Britain has 7.5 million cows but in the past eight years there have only been 18 deaths involving cattle, including bulls whose dangers are well-known.
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Ya never know for whom the cow moos.
If you provoke a cow and it kills you... it’s just a little cholrine in the gene pool.
Killer Cow Ping!
Now for some music.....
Fat and docile, big and dumb
They look so stupid, they aren’t much fun
Cows aren’t fun
They eat to grow, they grow to die
They die to be eat at the hamburger fry
Cows well done
Nobody thunk it, nobody knew
No one imagined the great cow guru
Cows are one
He hid in the forest, read books with great zeal
He loved Che Guevera, a revolutionary veal
Cow Tse Tongue
He spoke about justice, but nobody stirred
He felt like an outcast, alone, in the herd.
Cow doldrums
He mooed we must fight, escape or we’ll die
Cows gathered around, cause the stakes were so high
Bad cow pun
But then he was captured, stuffed into a crate
Loaded onto a truck, where he rode to his fate
Cows are bummed
He was a scrawny calf, who looked rather woozy
No one suspected he was packing Uzi
Cows with guns
They came with a needle to stick in his thigh
He kicked for the groin, he pissed in their eye
Cow well hung
Knocked over a tractor and ran for the door
Six gallons of gas flowed out on the floor
Run cows run!
He picked up a bullhorn and jumped up on the hay
We are free roving bovines, we run free today
We will fight for bovine freedom
And hold our large heads high
We will run free with the Buffalo, or die...
Cows with guns
They crashed the gate in a great stampede
Tipped over a milk truck, torched all the feed
Cows have fun
Sixty police cars were piled in a heap
Covered in cow pies, covered up deep
Much cow dump
Black smoke rising, darkening the day
Twelve burning McDonalds, have it your way
We will fight for bovine freedom
And hold our large heads high
We will run free with the Buffalo, or die
Cows with guns
The President said “Enough is Enough!
These uppity cattle, its time to get tough”
Cow dung flung
The newspapers gloated, folks sighed with relief
Tomorrow at noon, they would all be ground beef
Cows on buns
The cows were surrounded, they waited and prayed
They mooed their last moos,
they chewed their last hay
Cows out gunned
The order was given, turn cows to whoppers
Enforced by the might of ten thousand coppers
But on the horizon, surrounding the shoppers
Came the deafening roar, of chickens, in choppers!
We will fight for bovine freedom
And hold our large heads high
We will run free with the Buffalo, or die
Cows with guns
So the cows even the score a bit, bully for them, who cares, they’ll never catch up.
There’s just got to be a ‘Farmer-and-the-city-slicker’ joke in there somewhere....
We used to raise registered Beefmasters and they are normally very docile. My bull was a beauty and was massive. The Vet said he was one of the biggest he’d ever seen and would probably weigh 1500lbs plus. He was so gentle I could ride him, brush him, and lead him with a rope around his neck. The only thing I couldn’t do was go in the pasture with an umbrella. The first time I did that was the last time. He charged me in the middle of the pasture. Since this was totally out of character for him I figured out it was the umbrella. I threw it down and he stomped it to mush. After he killed the umbrella he came to me to have his ears scratched. I think he was protecting me from the umbrella. LOL
“Cows can become aggressive and charge, especially when calves are present and walkers are accompanied by dogs”
The story sounds a little beefed up to me. They’re milking it for all its worth.
I think it might be aunt Margret out walking her Yorkie and decides to cut though the old cow pasture. Never seen the cows coming looked like uncle tom maybe
Well, the dogs are interested in the cows, so that might be a problem.
Used to have an Alaskan Malamute, dumb as a bag of hair, that spent most of his day chasing the neighbors cows. More of a game than anything else to him and the cows. I would drive by and he would be laying in the middle of the herd as they grazed without a care.
Another reason for the yut to give up on cows and tip Smart Cars.
—thanks to strict British gun laws, this will never happen-
—http://www.shagrat.net/Portfolio/cows.swf
I had a Jersey cow who went ape if I had my hood up, but I could wear a hat and she'd let me lead her around by a little curled stub of a horn, maybe 5 inches long, which had grown out when she wasn't completely dehorned as a calf. She would even follow me if I let go of the horn and give me an occasional friendly butt in the rump just so I knew she was still with me.
For some reason, she could recognize me in a hat pulled down completely over my ears, but she wouldn't let me get near her if I was wearing the hood up.
Well, that’s it. Have the government take over all cattle livestock herds.
How now...brown cow.. uuhh
I don't know about that...it sounds like there's a lot at steak.
Definitely, They are very dangerous, and seem to be able to access a resevoir of gas for the flame thrower varient nnow evolving rapidly because of global warming.
Attack Cows. In yer face. Its happening!
trespassers without a clue...
The umbrella was open. I always wore a raincoat to the pasture but for some reason that day I took the umbrella. I never did that again! :-) I had a Jersey cow once. She was a sweetheart but watch those Jersey bulls!
I haven’t had any problems with my dogs but I had a horse that didn’t like my yellow raincoat. I could wear a different raincoat and he was fine but if I went in the pasture with the yellow one on he would run to the other side of the field. I’ve always been told animals are colorblind but I’m not so sure.
It's udderly unbelievable...
They probably have high-capacity udders too!
I need more cow-bell!
Eventually they’ll outlaw them.
The first thing they’ll do is prohibit the right to concealed carry.
Vealy intelesting.....
“...it sounds like there’s a lot at steak.”
A-1 comment.
“It’s udderly unbelievable...”
I know, I’ve never herd of such a thing.
Would it help if the "ramblers and walkers" didn't trespass in famers pastures?
Oh, right! It's the UK; private property isn't a very well understood concept. Ask Tony Martin.
Or ask the farmer who was removed from his property and restrained by police for an entire weekend "to prevent his causing a disturbance" when he complained that trucks had crashed through his locked gates, and the people then broke into his locked barn, set up A/V equipment, and then the rest of the 100s of ravers arrived for a weekend of "free" party-hearty fun.
They are really, really stupid over there. No one walks in someone else’s pasture..Bulls and dogs don’t like that and cows with calf’s will kill you...
Horning in with bad puns are we? Here we have an interesting moos story and you want to butcher it with your cutting remarks. Leather you like it or not, we will not be ground down (or round) by chaps like you. I don't care what you may have curd, we will resist your cheesy comments. Try to field your jokes - plop them onto this thread - we will not accept such manure. You may think it is red hot, but your brand of humor is not welcome. Those of us who want a real discussion will not be trampled under hoof. So give up this udder futility. I say; hay, bail now. You don't want people to think you are some kind of lasso. Do not stall, lest you feel the stampede of freeper outrage.
There we have it folks! Wear long pants to encourage fiscal responsibility in our bovine friends.
I know you are trying to steer me in a different direction, but it would behoove you to be a bit more tolerant. This cud come back and bite you.
And besides, its disgusting to step in lib brains.
It is rare for such a well done reply.
Lib pancakes...not cow pancakes...chuckles to you..good one
Revenge for untold trillions of hamburgers.
“It is rare for such a well done reply.”
Thanks, I enjoy cooking these things up.
Freegards.
Perhaps one day we will meat.
This isn't trespassing! In Britain thousands of public rights of way cross private land, including farm fields. These footpaths have the legal status of public highways, and the owner of the land which they cross may not impede their use by anybody on foot. The law governing rights of way has existed since medieval times, and has evolved side by side with the law of property. Most public rights of way are centuries old. They were essential in a small, crowded country in which the only way to get from your house to Church, market etc was across somebody else's land. Nowadays their survival is vigorously defended as a means for an urban population to have access to the countryside.
When a public right of way crosses farmland, it's illegal to keep a bull in that field. There's no constraint, however, on any other kind of livestock.
...and here, in the meantime, USFS & BLM are closing well used wild lands roads "for the environment". Never mind that they are also effectively shutting people out of public lands; isolating communities, and destroying perfectly good emergency fire access/fire breaks.
England is a strange place...:O)
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