Incident number: 1001
Response ID: 307,458,462
Date of incident: 23.09.24
Location: The Mathern area of the Wales Coastal Path
Status: Lone walker no dog on PRW
Annette’s story
“I was not hurt or even charged, but there was a few hours of extreme anxiety of having to walk through multiple small herds of cows while being stared and mooed at as well as trying to locate my exit. Plus the ground is very difficult to traverse in a pasture so escaping quickly is not an option. One field posted a warning that there is a bull in the field. My choice was to go back through all the pastures I had just braved through or continue on. Thankfully the bull was not there that day but he recently had been. It is a large pasture to get through and no one should have to be terrified while hiking because of cattle. I’m not sure I will continue the path.”
Annette also adds wisely “Hiking solo already comes with elevated risk and some anxiety. We should not have added risk because of cattle.”
Cattle Safety 
Agree – this puts me off too, except that the risk caused by cattle are my only reason for anxiety – I’ve never worried about hiking on my own.
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