Via @AmbushPredator, from The Yorkshire* Post:
The man and woman, aged in their 50s, were walking near Starbotton in Upper Wharfedale when the incident happened at 3pm on Wednesday. The Yorkshire Air Ambulance landed but was not needed and the couple were taken to hospital by road ambulance with cuts and bruises...
In May, an 82-year-old man from Lancashire was killed by cows when he and his wife, 78, were attacked by the herd while they were walking their dogs near Ribblehead Viaduct in the Dales. The woman was not seriously injured. The cattle had calves with them.
On July 19, a couple were 'trampled' by cows while walking through a field near Huggate in the Yorkshire Wolds. One had to be airlifted to hospital.
* Southerners please note, it is not pronounced York-sheer or York-shire, it is pronounced York-shuh, the emphasis in on the first syllable.
Thursday, 30 July 2020
"Couple injured after being attacked by cow in the Yorkshire Dales"
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"an 82-year-old man from Lancashire"
The cows haven't forgotten the Wars of the Roses, obviously.
B, tee hee.
Injured after being attacked? Injured during the attack, surely.
I was just waiting for the dogs to be mentioned.
And, yup, there they were!
MIM, nope.
1. they were injured (passive, something else did the injuring) during the attack.
2. they were injured (adjective, something had injured them in the recent past) after the attack.
D, one day, dog owners will learn this. They'll print it on tins and packets of dog food until it sinks in.
I lived in the country and walked my dogs there for many years. The only trouble I had with cattle was occasionly a herd of young Bullocks would take an interest. I found an aggressive attitude and the odd sharp smack on their noses from my walking stick soon deterred them. Never attempt to run away, a sure way of getting into trouble.
Herd immunity (from prosecution).
john2008. The farmer who has his cattle in the meadow below our house takes his dog into the filed with him to chat to his herd, and the cows don't worry about it. Maybe it's dogs and people they don't know that spooks them.
JD, glad to hear it, but maybe you were just lucky. It's not bullocks that are the problem, it is cows with young calves who are insanely protective.
DrE, tee hee.
L, that must be correct. Better the dog you know, and the dog probably knows how to behave among cattle.
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