We discuss the recent Sunday Times article. THANK YOU to everbody who had contributed their stories.
The Sunday Times recently published a long piece on cattle attacks by Siân Boyle. The article featured on the front cover of the magazine, had a full 2-page title spread inside, along with 5 pages of information and personal accounts.
Continue reading “Natural Born Killers, by Siân Boyle”Libby talks to Evan Davis on Radio 4
On Monday, 19th of June, one of our members was interviewed by Evan Davis for BBC Radio 4’s PM program. The topic was cow attacks, amid the flurry of interest since the publication of a feature on cattle attacks in the Sunday Times Magazine on Sunday.
Listen to Libby describe what happened to her…
Please report any cattle incidents to the Health and Safety Executive. They have the ability to investigate and can instruct the farmer to take action.
If I hadn’t run away, they would have trampled me for sure.
On the 5th November, 2022, I was walking on my own along a public footpath near Watermills Wood in Staffordshire. I could see around 15-20 young cows in the field, but the footpath led straight up the edge of the field to a farmhouse only about 200 metres away. It was raining heavily.
Continue reading “Seasoned Hiker: chased by aggressive cows”I suffered multiple serious injuries: fractures to neck, pelvis, arms, ribs and internal damage.
On 10 August, 2021, my husband, Mark and I were walking on the outskirts of Stockport. We were with our dog who was on his lead. He was very calm and was not pulling on his lead.
Continue reading “Jill’s Story: multiple injuries”The cows were running fast and straight at us.
On the 26th August, 2022, I took my dogs out on our regular walk. I was walking on the old railway line just outside of Trevor (LL20) and going towards Llangollen, in Wales. The railway line links to a road which goes towards the canal.
Continue reading “Narrowly missed being trampled”One of us is still suffering from an injured back.
On the 31st July, 2022, we were walking along a public footpath, leaving Slaidburn on the approach to Panes Farm, in Lancashire. We were walking on the public path with our dog on a lead, and were about 200 metres away from the field gate. Half way across the field we could see a group of cows near the gate and lying down.
Read more: SL Story: a mad scrambleWithout warning, the cattle got up and started to charge towards us. It was then we noticed there were calves in the herd. We scrambled over a gate to get out of the way – which included having to throw the dog over the gate as best we could. My husband slowed their approach by making himself large and shouting at them, but they were still in charge mode – with one being particularly aggressive.
It took us at least 30 minutes of scrambling over drystone walls and gates to reach an alternative footpath. We escaped with only minor injuries, but one of us is still suffering from an injured back caused by scrambling over walls and gates.
In our experience, when entering a field because of the lay of the land it is often too late to realise cows are in the field.
In this case, there were no warning signs. We were lucky there was no barbed wire to scale over which would have made an escape very treacherous.
Farmers should not be allowed to have cows in fields that have a public right of way running through, especially with calves.
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Trampled to death in a field
It is always heartbreaking to report another death. This time, a 55-year-old woman has died after being trampled by cattle at a farm in Sussex.
Continue reading “Woman trampled to death by cows”I turned round and ran.
On the 30th April, 2021, I was walking along a public footpath near Legsby, in Lincolnshire. I was on my own, with no dog.
Walking through a field that seemed empty, and on a designated footpath that seemed empty, I walked through an open farm gate into another field. Halfway into the field, I spotted a mother and calf on the footpath.
I tried to skirt round them – but a herd of about twenty cows on the other side of the field started running towards me. I turned round and ran back the way I had come, and just managed to shut a farm gate before they reached me
Luckily I wasn’t injured, but I was pretty shook up. There were no signs warning about cows in the field, or that there where mothers with calves present in the field. I think there should have been clear warning signs, and that footpaths should be fenced off from livestock.
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The saw us – and charged across the field.
In Febuary, this year, I was walking near St Nicolas in the Vale of Glamorgan, in Wales. I was on a footpath with my dog on a lead.
Continue reading “Dillwyn’s story”15 broken ribs, a punctured lung, and nearly strangled.
We were very sorry to hear of the cattle attack that left Sharon Eley with terrible injuries:
I could hear my partner shouting, “Get to your feet.”
On the 11th October, 2015, we were walking along a public footpath near Scouts Dike, Penistone in South Yorkshire, with our dogs on a lead.
Continue reading “Beverley’s story: knocked down by a cow”
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