cattle receiving psychiatric help

[roscoe erf]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...nds-hill-plays-FETCH-owner-tackle-stress.html

 

[Dman2]

I once bought some red limmys out of Northumberland that needed psychiatric help
Never again

 

[Timmy_45]

Great just what we need, the public thinking cows are just like overgrown dogs, which the public basically think of as human. PETA will love this.

 

[wasted years]

Sheep need help as well, the fox seems to worry them.

 

[Wellytrack]

I once bought some red limmys out of Northumberland that needed psychiatric help
Never again

Had an Angus cross Lim heifer last year that was an absolute completely mental creature. First time I have been genuinely terrified by an animal.

 

[Farmer Roy]

 

[Farmer Roy]

 

[Lincs Lass]

Maybe method in the madness.
Come the day when the the cow has to go ,just kick a ball in the wagon and will run in to fetch it, shut the ramp behind it and no stress

 

[puppet]

Darwin was right

 

[Rowland]

I once bought some red limmys out of Northumberland that needed psychiatric help
Never again

Hexham mart seams to get there fair share of spirited cattle some could even be called a tad lively!
Stood one day next to a friend of mine who was giving luck money out and one of his buyers said “ you reckon they be alright to turn out once they’ve settled in a few days?”

Reply was “if I where you I’d never let them see the light of day ever again “ that was to me after the buyer had gone!

Yes he said the buyer I’m sure they’ll be fine.

 

[Timmy_45]

What exactly is the cow supposed to be stressed about anyway? It's in a field with plenty of grass, unless he's letting dogs in their with it or trying to sodomoise it ( he is Swedish after all ), it's a cow, it will just happily graze away and think of absolutely nothing. It doesn't have debts, it doesn't have a mortgage, it can't remember yesterday or think about tomorrow. It's a cow.

 

[Sharpy]

What exactly is the cow supposed to be stressed about anyway? It's in a field with plenty of grass, unless he's letting dogs in their with it or trying to sodomoise it ( he is Swedish after all ), it's a cow, it will just happily graze away and think of absolutely nothing. It doesn't have debts, it doesn't have a mortgage, it can't remember yesterday or think about tomorrow. It's a cow.

Probably lack of bovine company?

 

[Wellytrack]

What exactly is the cow supposed to be stressed about anyway? It's in a field with plenty of grass, unless he's letting dogs in their with it or trying to sodomoise it ( he is Swedish after all ), it's a cow, it will just happily graze away and think of absolutely nothing. It doesn't have debts, it doesn't have a mortgage, it can't remember yesterday or think about tomorrow. It's a cow.

Really? How do you know this?

Your having a giraffe if you think cows can’t remember something from one day to the next.

 

[Timmy_45]

A cow like any animal will react to a recalled stimulus. That is entirely different neurologically from consciously thinking about past or future events, or having a concept of self. A animal in a field with a strange dog will be stressed, but an animal will not in the absence of a strange dog worry about whether a strange dog might come along tomorrow and chase it.

 

[Wellytrack]

A cow like any animal will react to a recalled stimulus. That is entirely different neurologically from consciously thinking about past or future events, or having a concept of self. A animal in a field with a strange dog will be stressed, but an animal will not in the absence of a strange dog worry about whether a strange dog might come along tomorrow and chase it.

That’s true, you do have a point there, but without going fluffy animals gaga about cows - like horses I do think they can be loners within a herd, or even lonely if isolated in a paddock for an unduly long time, which I hate to see tbh.

I think that elevates them above goldfish in that respect.

 

[Canada Farmer]

Really? How do you know this?

Your having a giraffe if you think cows can’t remember something from one day to the next.

Cows never forget the gap in the fence to the next paddock or be it tomorrow or 4 weeks time!!!

 

[Wellytrack]

Cows never forget the gap in the fence to the next paddock or be it tomorrow or 4 weeks time!!!

I’ve a Friesian cow that reared two adopted calves in a small byre three years ago. She passes the door maybe twice or three times per year, every time without fail she tries to break the door down to get in

 

[JD-Kid]

sheep I know are used in alot of trials
they are ment to only. id about 4-5 others in the flock ..bit hopeless in a line up seen this one before. nope. this one nope. this one nope. etc etc
they. have dopamine in there system. which is a reward. so push. though fence. get new grass install training not only get grass but feel good about it as well
we used EID to split ewes off in to lambing % avg's now the interning thing is. the more likely twin type ewes bit more go forward where single ewes more prone to stand back also. notice it in single lambs in wards etc
there is alot more to animals than we think and knowing how they. work makes the systems. alot easer

 

[primmiemoo]

Don't think I'd want to be around the cow in the OP once she'd got bored with playing with a ball and begun to wonder what sound effects she could produce by playing Splat the Human on me

As for playing any game with a sheep [eeek!]

 

[betweenthelines]

Women kicks/throws ball up the hill, cow returns the ball to woman at bottom of hill-gravity at work here I think.

Neighbours had an "equine medium" in once to tell them what their horses were thinking about. They didn't need a medium to know what I was thinking