Keeping our footpaths safe for walkers
You may have heard Adrian Chiles’s radio programme discussing the safety of walking through fields of cattle, if not then head this way - Adrian Chiles - 04/04/2024 - BBC Sounds . Neither the animal behaviourist nor the representative from the NFU on the programme arrived at any conclusions about how we should behave to... Continue Reading →
Incident number: 835 Response ID: 300,776,430 Date: 11/08/2015 Location: Hartsop near Patterdale in the Lake District In her own words …….. “It was the first day or our holiday. My husband had gone cycling. My brother and I were walking through a field with cows in the distance, I put the dog on the lead... Continue Reading →
Incident number: 777 Response number: 290,254,769 28th August 2023 Glandy Cross (Wales) My husband and I were looking at the ancient stone circle at Glandy Cross without a dog. There were cows two fields away. One was looking at us and was mooing loudly. I got caught up in looking at the stones and was... Continue Reading →
19th August 2023 The two of us were walking with our dog on the lead on one of the local footpath routes in a popular spot for both locals and tourists. The bullocks had been occupying a field at the start of the walk for weeks and had always been docile/ not interested on previous... Continue Reading →
Date: 31st May 2023 Location: Biggin village near Hulland Ward Derbyshire I entered the field on my own without a dog, there was a fairly large herd about 150 metres away all lying down. Following a hedge on my left I tried to cross the 100 meters to reach a copse of trees on other... Continue Reading →
Not an experience I would wish on anybody! For me, I was completely unaware that this kind of thing happens, and happens far more frequently than you think!
Read the tales of cattle incidents - bitten walkers, charged at golfers, stampeded schoolchildren, scared tourists
Update on Julie's story: Subject: 2 cow attacks 24.8.23 & 1.1.24 on Totley Moor near Sheffield Julie has recontacted our team after reading of a recent attack in the same area she was attacked - the link to a press report of the attack follows: https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/woman-left-with-broken-leg-after-being-attacked-by-cow-while-out-dog-walking-in-yorkshire/ar-AA1mmi68 Julie say "Having read today of another woman being attacked... Continue Reading →
saved by a quick thinking postman
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