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Be careful, be very careful. Treat them as equal - their inner lives are rarely fed by farmers. They get bored (and treat as animals). Sucking noises calm any mammal, and many birds. They love being scratched, preferably with a wire brush! They'll eat plastic-like cagoules, or try to. If they like you they'll lick and slobber and not let you go. Breathe into their nostrils if you want them to remember you. They appreciate water carried to them in a bucket, extra strong mints and having the plates of dried kak picked out of their hide. The fiercest looking ones are sometimes the most docile. Don't approach a bull wearing red or without identifying a secure escape route. That's enough to start with probably!

StoneGloves wrote:
Be careful, be very careful. Treat them as equal - their inner lives are rarely fed by farmers. They get bored (and treat as animals). Sucking noises calm any mammal, and many birds. They love being scratched, preferably with a wire brush! They'll eat plastic-like cagoules, or try to. If they like you they'll lick and slobber and not let you go. Breathe into their nostrils if you want them to remember you. They appreciate water carried to them in a bucket, extra strong mints and having the plates of dried kak picked out of their hide. The fiercest looking ones are sometimes the most docile. Don't approach a bull wearing red or without identifying a secure escape route. That's enough to start with probably!
I like this! I always treat cattle with the greatest respect though much prefer it when there is a wire fence between us; if there isn't, I don't make eye contact.

I live near Avebury so often walk down West Kennet Avenue and sometimes there is cattle in the meadow. A friend from Avebury says that that if you are carrying a rucksack take it off your back and hold it down at your side as the cattle will otherwise think you are carrying feed for them.

What brand of mints? Polos or something more expensive? What design of china should I use for the kak?

StoneGloves wrote:
Be careful, be very careful. Treat them as equal - their inner lives are rarely fed by farmers. They get bored (and treat as animals). Sucking noises calm any mammal, and many birds. They love being scratched, preferably with a wire brush! They'll eat plastic-like cagoules, or try to. If they like you they'll lick and slobber and not let you go. Breathe into their nostrils if you want them to remember you. They appreciate water carried to them in a bucket, extra strong mints and having the plates of dried kak picked out of their hide. The fiercest looking ones are sometimes the most docile. Don't approach a bull wearing red or without identifying a secure escape route. That's enough to start with probably!
What people need to remember is that the field is their home. Just like us humans, we don't like people trespassing on our property either.
I know people will what their 'right to roam' but I know how I would feel if a herd of cows trampled into my back yard. Especially if my young were out playing in it.

It is a matter of using one's brain. Common sense usually.

Mikki x

StoneGloves wrote:
Don't approach a bull wearing red or without identifying a secure escape route.
One of the very few things I know about cattle is they're colour blind. In bull fighting the cape is red to mask the bull's blood.