I always thought cows were stupid! If you’ve ever looked at a cattle grid, you’d have noticed that any animal with an ounce of brain should be able to work out how to get round them… I used to have hours of fun watch the herd of cows near my old house attempting to circumvent the cattle grid. Every now and then one of them gets close, but very few ever work it out and escape.
Anyway, driving home tonight through the New Forest I was thinking about the New Forest Ponies. For those of you who know nothing about the Forest, ponies run wild throughout it. It occurs to me that the Forest is a large place and that Animals that have the freedom to roam can eat and sleep anywhere they want. So, why do they all eat at the side of the roads or sleep in the middle of them? All that grassland and they prefer the tarmac. With the deer they always keep well away, the only problem with them is when the cross the road in their own inevitable style. So I officially put horses in the same stupid category as cows!
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Plz give cattle some credit. I have 2 steers right now and they are definity smarter that my moms horses. I can’t believe how idiotic my moms horses act in comparison to my cattle. for instance, My steer is only 6 months old, and already he knows how to back up, move over, and he leads very well already, but my mom has been trying to break her horses bad habit fo over a year now with no successs. anyway if you ask me, most people think that cattle are stupid just because they are slow moving and now as”cute” as horses, but if you give them the chance cattle can do almost everything horses can do too.