Why don't people keep cows as pets?

[gregbrighton]

Cows are characterful, they have different moos based on their mooods and big licky tongues. They are no bigger than horses (I'm not saying we should ride them) and the ones without horns seem friendly to humans.

It would be nice if we didn't look upon them as meat machines or milk machines.

Do you think we should have a more enlightened approach towards these intelligent creatures?

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

They would struggle on the stairs

 

[TWOCHOICEStom]

You start some bloody weird threads.

 

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[Gazwag]

You would been to take a bin liner with to go walkies, although you would know if its going to rain or not I suppose

 

[mikeyjh]

Once you've been shoved in to a thorny bush by an angry cow, you wouldn't want one as a pet, trust me.

 

[Icy Gull]

I imagine keeping one in a central Brighton flat could be fun and you might be seen as pretty cool or totally insane

 

[Eeyore]

Here's one of the buggers that faced me off on the banks of the Ouse a number of years ago. Cows scare the shite out of me sometimes.

 

[knocky1]

Once you've been shoved in to a thorny bush by an angry cow, you wouldn't want one as a pet, trust me.

That only happens for a few days every month. Sometimes it's worth putting up with and sometimes not.

 

[Robot Chicken]

http://www.wikihow.com/Have-a-Pet-Cow

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Cows are characterful, they have different moos based on their mooods and big licky tongues. They are no bigger than horses (I'm not saying we should ride them) and the ones without horns seem friendly to humans.

It would be nice if we didn't look upon them as meat machines or milk machines.

They certainly don't look upon cows as such in Aberdeen. There was a celebrated case in The Press and Journal a number of years back, maybe even true, where a motorist was up in court for having, er, carnal knowledge of a cow. In his defence, the defendant claimed he got caught short on the way back from the pub, nipped over a dyke to relieve himself, and the cow reversed into him. Not sure if it ever stood up in court...


I'll get me goat

 

[gregbrighton]

You would been to take a bin liner with to go walkies, although you would know if its going to rain or not I suppose

I'm saying why not treat them like horses as in keeping them in a field. It doesn't matter if they poo. In fact it's makes good fertiliser for the garden and allotments.

 

[Prince Monolulu]

A suitable entrance/exit cowflap for a bovine buddy would be some sight.

 

[ManOfSussex]

I'm saying why not treat them like horses as in keeping them in a field. It doesn't matter if they poo. In fact it's makes good fertiliser for the garden and allotments.

When I lived in Botswana, cows used to literally roam the streets. Streets with cow mess in them are far worse than streets with dog mess. Trust me.

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

Cows are characterful, they have different moos based on their mooods and big licky tongues. They are no bigger than horses (I'm not saying we should ride them) and the ones without horns seem friendly to humans.

It would be nice if we didn't look upon them as meat machines or milk machines.

Do you think we should have a more enlightened approach towards these intelligent creatures?

I am absolutely with you on this one. Cows, (particularly calves), and I have a really good rapport.

The local farmer often leaves his herd in the field behind my house, so the cows and I are on first name terms. In fact just last week Daisy & I were having a chat, when she nuzzled her nose into my cardy. This is nice I thought, and then she suddenly blew her nose.

I haven't been back since.

 

[gregbrighton]

When I lived in Botswana, cows used to literally roam the streets. Streets with cow mess in them are far worse than streets with dog mess. Trust me.

But people get used to them. Where I grew up in the Chiltern Hills, horses and cows used the roads and there was poo everywhere on the road and on car wheels. My mum used to go round the village with a shovel to pick up the cow pats and horse poo to use in her allotment.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

My mum used to go round the village with a shovel to pick up the cow pats and horse poo to use in her allotment.

Face it, Your Mum was just going through the motions.

 

[crabface]

Ive said many times it would be cheaper and cooler to keep a cow in our office, as well as saving me from pottering to the shop constantly to buy Milk. The amounts consumed in my office are unbeliveable.

 

[ManOfSussex]

But people get used to them. Where I grew up in the Chiltern Hills, horses and cows used the roads and there was poo everywhere on the road and on car wheels. My mum used to go round the village with a shovel to pick up the cow pats and horse poo to use in her allotment.

Think of a cow pat when the suns shining and it's nearly 40c. The flies seemed to love them though.

 

[gregbrighton]

I'm sure a few people here think they have a cow at home...