That sinking feeling,cattle out!

[Andrew1983]

I’m plagued by this. Miles of crap fences haven’t helped but it’s more often than not someone has not shut a gate or even in one area for a while some dick was opening the gate. It’s nearly always happens when I’m either 15 miles (or further) away in town for something, In the shower, or out for a meal ?‍?‍?‍

 

[crofteress]

We had the worst call of all 3 weeks ago. The police called to say a cow had been hit by 2 cars on the A12. When we got there it was unfortunately one of ours. She had jumped over a brand new fence and straight into the traffic. The first car hit her and sent her into the oncoming car which also hit her. Both cars are written off but nobody was injured. The cow was stood looking battered and bloodied but amazingly she is ok. Time will tell if she is still in calf bless her. No clue why one cow out of a group of 80 would do that.View attachment 839160

so glad she was ok ! unreal how she survived that

 

[Fendt65]

Cows only get out when you go out,the wife’s convinced I don’t want to see her friends.must confess i have used it as a excuse.

 

[Blue.]

I lock all roadside gates with coded locks after some kind sole let 19 heifers out one night,found them 4 miles away 2 days later.

 

[farmgineer]

One of the stories I've heard... Was of a guy whose cows got out into a neighbours garden. The neighbour wanted to claim on the insurance... The farmer asked if they had gotten the tag number of the cow that did the damage as he had got them all individually insured and couldn't do anything unless they knew which animal it was so they could make the right claim.... Unfortunately they did not know the tag number, so a claim wasn't able to be made

 

[Princess Pooper]

As well as cattle and sheep, and of course wild deer, we have other local hazards... https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?...bNvU0XQCKX6NCO67ltxz7WGnN6k3t6zUiuz3Cag&ifg=1

A fairly frequent occurrence.

Swore blind to my husband I saw one of these as we drove past one of our fields a few years ago. He didn't believe me. Only found out a few months later that someone had 3 or 4 as part of his menagerie

 

[Danllan]

I lock all roadside gates with coded locks after some kind sole let 19 heifers out one night,found them 4 miles away 2 days later.

Yes, same here. We had some stores in a field that opens on to a very rarely used lane and some ars*head once left the gate open! Same gate a while later was then lifted off the hooks. Neither times were too bad to get in, but that's was just luck. Now the hooks are pinned and there is a locked chain. The odd thing is that the idiot(s) in question could have set a lot of sheep and some other cattle loose too, but didn't.

As well as cattle and sheep, and of course wild deer, we have other local hazards... https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?...bNvU0XQCKX6NCO67ltxz7WGnN6k3t6zUiuz3Cag&ifg=1

A fairly frequent occurrence.

Swore blind to my husband I saw one of these as we drove past one of our fields a few years ago. He didn't believe me. Only found out a few months later that someone had 3 or 4 as part of his menagerie

One summer on the old place, on the edge of the Chilterns, I saw a wallaby when I was a kid in the late 70s / early 80s and nobody believed me. Weeks later one was found hit by a car a couple of miles away, the assumption was that it had managed to get there from Whipsnade Zoo, less than 12 miles away, but the Zoo said not, despite the fact that there was / is a colony of escaped ones living around it.

In the late 80's I was on leave at home and saw a few impala in a neighbour's field and, again, wasn't believed. This time the Zoo had lost some.

In the 90's I was at home and couldn't sleep, so sat watching a fox go around the garden in the moonlight. After it had gone out of sight something caught my eye by a hedge, it was. following the path the fox had taken. It even came across the patio in front of the window from where I watched. It was a very large cat, as in a puma. Again, a while alter there were reports in the local press of a 'et' one having escaped. Odd behaviour though, I've not seen cats hunting my scent since.

Having just got back from working in Tanzania, I was out for a run around the fields. I went along a path I've know my whole life, when I saw some thorn trees with branches stripped and on their sides. I immediately thought 'Elephant!'... but it wasn't, a friend's father had just flattened them a few days before...

I doubt that there are breeding populations of these animals, especially elepahant , but I am sure there are far more 'exotics' on the loose than most people realise.