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I’ve just heard the sad news after 40 years the Highland cows on Baslow Edge are gone (BBC report). Sadly it seems there was an incident where a dog on a lead that was attacked by the cows trying the protect their calves. It seems it couldn’t be sorted out privately and lead to HSE involvement in which they were deemed as a H&S risk.
Whilst as a dog owner I’m glad to heard the dog was on a lead but it does lead to the question, if you are walking in the countryside should you can expect farm animals to possibly be present? Whilst this part of the Peak District isn’t a large cattle farming area it was well known the Highland cows were there. Last year I seem to remember there were warming signs highlighting the fact the cows were present and had calves.
As a dog owner if there are cows with calves and i have a dog just don’t go near them and avoid them completely. Surely thats just common sense?
Quote from the article, "As there's nowhere else for them to go, they had to get rid of them. The pregnant ones were sold off, the ones which weren't will be killed”. It’s very sad that it’s going to lead to the death of several of the cows, and all because of an incident where there was no injury. It could also set a dangerous precedence. How many other places could it affect? Could deer parks with public access have to restrictive movement of free roaming deer because they pose a H&S hazard?
A petition has been set up, you can find it on the link below. Hopefully it can be overturned because it seems a silly and over the top reaction.
https://www.change.org/p/national-trust-the-return-of-highland-cattle-on-baslow-edge
I was lucky to catch the Highland cows a few times in 2018. On all of those occasions calves where present but you just had to be sensible. Here’s some of my photos of them.
Whilst as a dog owner I’m glad to heard the dog was on a lead but it does lead to the question, if you are walking in the countryside should you can expect farm animals to possibly be present? Whilst this part of the Peak District isn’t a large cattle farming area it was well known the Highland cows were there. Last year I seem to remember there were warming signs highlighting the fact the cows were present and had calves.
As a dog owner if there are cows with calves and i have a dog just don’t go near them and avoid them completely. Surely thats just common sense?
Quote from the article, "As there's nowhere else for them to go, they had to get rid of them. The pregnant ones were sold off, the ones which weren't will be killed”. It’s very sad that it’s going to lead to the death of several of the cows, and all because of an incident where there was no injury. It could also set a dangerous precedence. How many other places could it affect? Could deer parks with public access have to restrictive movement of free roaming deer because they pose a H&S hazard?
A petition has been set up, you can find it on the link below. Hopefully it can be overturned because it seems a silly and over the top reaction.
https://www.change.org/p/national-trust-the-return-of-highland-cattle-on-baslow-edge
I was lucky to catch the Highland cows a few times in 2018. On all of those occasions calves where present but you just had to be sensible. Here’s some of my photos of them.
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