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A rather cross beast posted on Overland Cruisers facebook page:
A rather cross beast posted on Overland Cruisers facebook page:
Going a bit Farmers Weekly here, but my first cow was a sweet natured and calm Aberdeen Angus called Girly. I got her at a few weeks old, bought her home in the back of the car. She was very friendly, but polite with it, never pushy, with a slightly odd falsetto moo and a dashing hairstyle. She had a calf every other year for many years, always an easy birth and a great mother, always healthy. Then one day, out of the blue, she just dropped dead, vet reckoned she’d had a heart attack. Unfortunately, where she’d died it was almost impossible to move or bury her, trees and a steep wet slope, so it was a funeral pyre job, which seemed fitting. Quite a few tears and weary legs later (took a fair old bit of timber) the job was done.
It looked like the bull in the video had probably got away from a bull fight or similar, so I’m not surprised that he was angry. One of our previous neighbours father was dispatched by a bull, not to speak ill of the dead but judging by what I learnt of him, quite possibly a fair cop, what goes round comes round and all that. I found that in general, if not scared or trained to be mean, animals are pretty good natured if treated with respect, though I did have a ram who was just plain bloody minded, you turned your back on him at your peril !
I'm still thinking about it.