We found 9 cows grazing happily on the slope below Sandy Hill yesterday.
However, my neighbour, who walks her dog regularly on the ranges, and who knows I do this blog reported a rather alarming experience to me yesterday. She told me that, I think on Wednesday of this week, whilst walking her well behaved dog, she was charged by a cow. Apparently she was 20 or so yards away, passing it on a path, when it bellowed at her and charged. She stood her ground and it stopped about 5 yards from her. She felt rather shacken by the experience but, just as she was walking off, she saw the same cow charge at a couple of runners passing by, who were very alarmed. She describes the cow as mostly black but with some white markings.
I have given her details to contact Guy, though I understand he is away over the holiday and also the main office number given here on the blog, so that she can report it herself. I thought though that forewarned is forearmed to those of us who blog so that we can keep an eye out.
Happy New Year!
Hilary and Martin
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Thank you for this.
ReplyDeleteWe take all reports of incidents such as this seriously as such situation can have serious consequences.
The two bits of key information we need are the ladies contact details and an ear tag number, with this we can contact the lady directly to get secondary data (time place etc.) apologise on behalf of the cattle and build up a written record of each individual cattle. This written record allows us to identify problematic animals so they can be dealt with appropriately.
Thanks
Elliott
Elliott
ReplyDeleteThank you for this.
I will give your phone no to our neighbour, Marion, and ask her to contact you directly to give you further information. I dont think she was able to get the tag no.
Regards
Martin Andrews