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- somerset
before we went mad and restarted our dairy, we had a huge problem with walkers (1?) leaving gates open earlty in the mornings, I bought 5 longhorn cows with calves , dosey old things,liked nothing better than a good scratch, solved the prombem pretty well overnight. now if walkers are not on a footpath, I carefully explain that tony blair brought in the right to roam act, but in England I am required to tell them they are not on the footpath and show them where it is, and apologise for having to do so, that usually stumps then. on a more serious note we do not let the dairy bull out with cows/hfrs where there is a path, we have been approached by a neighbour (non farmer} to not put a bull in the field by his house, in case his visitors wanted to walk through it. on the trampling side it could happen to anyone, cattle are animals, and can react unexpectedly.