This is a repeating short video without sound: a gif. I’ve decided that it is a lesson to us all. Close interspecies friendships take many forms. Companion animals don’t have to be cats and dogs. This cow has a relationship with the woman which is …
“Cow cuddling is the new yoga” said a friend of The Times journalist Laura Pullman who has been stuck in New York State for the past year because of travel bans due to the Covid pandemic. The Dutch have long advocated cow hugging as a …
In the UK, rivers are becoming more polluted from farms and water company sewer overflows; 84% of rivers have failed to meet government targets concerning ecological standards. The Environment Agency has cut farm inspections by 66% since 2014-15. They failed to enforce rules introduced in …
Background People should know by now that cows can be dangerous. It is well known that cows, all cattle, can be a risk to people in their vicinity particularly cows with calves. There have been several high-profile deaths of walkers by cows recently in the …
RICHMOND, NORTH YORKSHIRE – NEWS AND OPINION: David Clark was an extremely popular, brilliant and lovely father and teacher. Very sadly, he was trampled to death by cows as he walked his dogs on a footpath that runs alongside a field. Clearly the cows had …
Technology has been developed to allow farmers to confine cattle to a parcel of land without recourse to fences by placing GPS electric collars on the cows which deliver a zap to the animal when they cross a virtual boundary. The technology has been developed …
The Times reports on a disturbing case of the abuse of cows at a UK farm. The farm has been named as Berryfields Farm near Daventry, Northamptonshire. The cows were allegedly beaten with pipes, kicked and had their tails twisted. Some were lame and workers …
Lancashire Farm Dairies hosted a yoga class in a field with cows. The idea was that participants should enjoy the surroundings of nature and share their class with cows. The cow is a sacred animal to Hindus. The president of the Universal Society of Hinduism, …
In respect of social bonding and friendships, a study from the Austral University of Chile found that cows behave like their wild ancestors, aurochs; wild cattle which inhabited Asia, Europe and North Africa. Domestication has not removed from their memory how to instinctively protect the …
