With both horses and cows, the stupidest most effective way to make them come see you is turning your back to them amd fiddle with your hands while looking busy.
That’s how curious they are. I really like that trait of character.
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empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months agoHaha yeah they’ll do that. They can be insufferably curious.
I remember one time one of our border collie pups (not old enough to work but just getting introduced to the herd) got away from my mom. The cows all came over to check her out and she took off with the whole herd right after her!
She wasn’t that interested in working much after that…
Shapillon@lemmy.world 4 months ago
RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com 4 months ago
Me and my sister got encircled once by about ten cows while we wanted to visit our pony which was on the same absurdly big pasture. As they closed in, our little Shetland pony raced in to our rescue and showed them who’s boss in seconds. That was surprising in multiple ways. Especially as I didn’t expect ponies to be that protective to their scratch givers.
I hope your dog was able to overcome the trauma with time and therapy 😅
Zonetrooper@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Small horses, like small dogs, are herd animals, are utterly convinced they are ten times their actual size, and will show this off at any opportunity.
empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
Oh yeah, she’s fine now. She was young and impressionable, wasn’t hars to get her used to going back out there in better circumstances.