Incident Number: 1055, Response ID 310,532,049
Date of incident: 22/6/24
Location: Around Vale of the White Horse
No dog, 6/10 people
I was on my Duke of Edinburgh practice walk with my group when our map told us to follow a footpath which crossed a cow field containing several brown cows. At first we avoided eye contact with the cows but they began advancing on us. Most of my group successfully made it across the field and over the fence, safe from the cows. However I got left behind, still on the field. The cows surrounded me and I was stuck, every time I took a step they took one towards me and they stared at me and I was so scared I thought they were going to attack me. I didn’t know what to do, I was frozen in place, when one of my group mates threw a branch to distract them. The cows ran away and I quickly made my escape by sprinting to the fence and jumped over and I was safe.
It was such a scary experience and if I had been alone, I wouldn’t have known what to do. Since then I’ve always avoided cows.
Not injured, badly frightened.
Cattle Safety 