look, cows

[derien]

One of our cow neighbors (a fat little brown thing, I have no idea if it was a pregnant heifer or a young steer) was down grazing on our septic field when I got home about a half hour ago, so I called the owner, and he came over with a bucket with a little grain in it to lure the cow back over. Here's where years of experience wins - what it looked like to me was, he rattled the bucket, then showed himself, and cow looked around as if to say, "I have no idea how to get back over to you... and anyway, I've found good grazing here." So the farmer went back out of sight behind the trees, and in a few seconds the cow got curious and went back through the fence. He ducked his head under the top strand of barbed wire and stepped over the middle strand. The whole fence squealed and groaned, but he went through nimble as a cat. It's obvious the fence poses no barrier aside from psychological. But, the farmer knows his cow psychology.