[shygirl]

phew, thank god i did a head count on my way up the road. its nae mine.

https://www.facebook.com/FubarNews/photos/pcb.677566202310164/677566065643511/?type=1&theater


 

[Lesley Silvester]

 


The cow just fancies a paddle.

[shygirl]

i feel terrible now as the heifer was pts. it fell in the harbour at aberdeen after travelling from orkney. so sad, poor thing.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-28105954

[john and helen]

how the hell could they not rescue a cow ….

[plumseverywhere]

That's really sad - still can't believe that they were unable to rescue the cow though.

[doganjo]

And why can't we post comments on the BBC website?     I'm sure if they'd tried harder they could have rescued her!

[Lesley Silvester]

That's so sad. It didn't look that low down on the first link but further down on the  second link. The report said it was shot as a last resort after five hours of trying to rescue it because it was being swept away.

[doganjo]

Cows can swim well, they could have taken a boat out and lassoed her with those SSPCA loops.  I don't think they tried.

[shygirl]

its just down the road from us. our cows were docked there from shetland. its one of the biggest ports in uk, with a queue of huge ships - and to dock there costs alot so i think money had something to do with it. but apparently they tried to herd it up with boats for 5 hrs but no luck and the tide was coming in so the little ledge it was on was going under.

really tragic story.

[doganjo]

I lived in Aberdeen till I was 50 - never seen any area of Aberdeen harbour that a cow couldn't have been rescued from.  Sorry but I'm pretty annoyed about this,.  I think money had a lot to do with it - "it's going for  slaughter anyway so why bother expending money"  was the attitude I think.

[Anke]

If this cow has been stranded for 5 hours she would have been so stressed anyway that shooting her/him was probably the kindest option... and actually trying for 5 hours to get it out was much longer than could have been expected and with the incoming tide you wouldn't want to put human lives at risk too... so sad yes, but these things happen.

[SallyintNorth]

Cows can swim well, they could have taken a boat out and lassoed her with those SSPCA loops.  I don't think they tried.

I don't know much about boats but I'm not sure how feasible it would be to lasso an animal weighing nearly 3/4 of a tonne from one?

We work with cattle on land, cattle that know us and know the land, and it can take a heck of a lot of doing sometimes to get a recalcitrant one where you want her.  They are particularly difficult to handle when there aren't any other bovines about.  I'd have got a couple of coos, penned them onshore and waited for her to come up to them - but I don't know if she could in fact get out of the water where she was.

I'm more puzzled about how she came to escape in the first place.  Does anyone know how that happened?

[Daisys Mum]

how the hell could they not rescue a cow ….

Health and safety no doubt, no one would be around who was trained to rescue cows from harbours. Humans have died for the same reasons! We live in a world gone completely mad.

[SallyintNorth]

I'm not sure how many of you folks have worked with frightened lone cattle but I'm intrigued to know what techniques you would use to rescue such a one from such a scenario.

As to 'health and safety gone mad', frightened lone cattle can easily kill or seriously maim, and I have friends with disfigured limbs to attest to that.

What is it you all think?  Someone would rattle a bucket of cake and the cow would meekly walk up???

[shygirl]

http://news.stv.tv/north/281130-cow-rescued-by-coastguard-team-after-falling-into-aberdeen-harbour/

can you get this link in england? (if not fake the postcode)