Cow tipping

[Gary_Robson]

@Sam Stone

The only way you’re going to ‘tip’ a cow is to hit it with your pickup truck.

That, by the way, is really bad for the pickup truck. A neighbor of mine was driving his 1-ton truck on the highway and came around a corner at 70mph to discover a cow on the road. The truck and cow were both totalled. My neighbor drives very slowly on that corner now.

@appleciders

As long as we’re on cow legends, is it true that cows will only walk up stairs and never down, allowing city kids to trap one on the top floor of their school as a senior prank?

I don’t know about staircases, but they’ll walk up and down ramps getting in and out of trucks and trailers. They climb up and down quite steep slopes, and in and out of creeks and rivers, and go places I can’t get my horses to go. I’d be surprised if you couldn’t get one down a staircase.

[Gary_Robson]

@Miss Purl McKnittington

I also suggest not standing with your back turned or bending over in front of a calf…

Excellent advice concerning goats and sheep (rams, anyway), too. And always maintain eye contact with the bull when loading cattle into a trailer (luckily, the one time I dropped my guard I heard him coming and I was faster than him).