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Cows and calves

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  • WaysideWayside Posts: 845
    Sweet photo.  Horrible to hear about ill fates of some.  Injuries often don't get recorded whereas fallibilities do. It's not quite so clear cut. 
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    It is clear cut.

    No sensible person interferes with unknown cows especially when calves are present.  Even farmers are wary then.  Same for all livestock.  Stupid to worry them and risk reprisals.

    No dog should be off lead on land where sheep, cattle, horses, pigs or any other livestock is present.  They are someone's property and often their livelihood and should be treated with courtesy and respect.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited August 2018
    The problem is that cows with calves will react to dogs whether they're on or off the lead ... they see the dog ... they don't understand the lead.

    The safest course of action is, as I said, to keep dogs that are unknown to the cows well away from them and if that means not going in their field, so be it. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,093

    The safest course of action is, as I said, to keep dogs that are unknown to the cows well away from them and if that means not going in their field, so be it. 
    Yes, which is fine as long as you know they are there before you go into the field.
    Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon

    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.” 
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