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<blockquote data-quote="Idaman" data-source="post: 769764" data-attributes="member: 14119"><p>A wild bull or cow is usually giving you a warning about not getting too close. They are easy to spot and you just prepare. My closest call was being pinned to a gate by a bull that wasn't wild and had never before shown aggressiveness. He never gave warnings but just wheeled and lunged.</p><p></p><p>We move cattle with a neighbor who has absolutely dog gentle cows but nearly every drive some old cow will race out of the herd without any warning and hit your horse at full speed. It makes my older son so mad that he usually just heels them when they turn around and sees just how hard he can make them hit the ground. He even got a part pitbull to help with the retaliation. One time an old cow came out of the willows and hit him on his best heeling horse. A few minutes later they were going along a narrow road that had about a 20 foot bank on the lower side. He waited until that same old cow was walking along the edge of the road above that bank and then he heeled her and jerked her legs in the right direction to topple her over that bank. She rolled four or five times down the bank and into the creek while he had his revenge laugh.</p><p></p><p>Right after college my roommate in college was killed by a gentle young Holstein bull. Gored through the heart.</p><p></p><p>In my opinion there is no more dangerous time around cattle than when you have a bunch of bulls corraled for working or loading. When one chases another one you had better be out of the way no matter how far away they are when they start the fight. I saw a bull being chased get straddle of a five wire fence and take out four or five good cedar posts before he got clear.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Idaman, post: 769764, member: 14119"] A wild bull or cow is usually giving you a warning about not getting too close. They are easy to spot and you just prepare. My closest call was being pinned to a gate by a bull that wasn't wild and had never before shown aggressiveness. He never gave warnings but just wheeled and lunged. We move cattle with a neighbor who has absolutely dog gentle cows but nearly every drive some old cow will race out of the herd without any warning and hit your horse at full speed. It makes my older son so mad that he usually just heels them when they turn around and sees just how hard he can make them hit the ground. He even got a part pitbull to help with the retaliation. One time an old cow came out of the willows and hit him on his best heeling horse. A few minutes later they were going along a narrow road that had about a 20 foot bank on the lower side. He waited until that same old cow was walking along the edge of the road above that bank and then he heeled her and jerked her legs in the right direction to topple her over that bank. She rolled four or five times down the bank and into the creek while he had his revenge laugh. Right after college my roommate in college was killed by a gentle young Holstein bull. Gored through the heart. In my opinion there is no more dangerous time around cattle than when you have a bunch of bulls corraled for working or loading. When one chases another one you had better be out of the way no matter how far away they are when they start the fight. I saw a bull being chased get straddle of a five wire fence and take out four or five good cedar posts before he got clear. [/QUOTE]
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