Since starting this thread I have allowed several people to take a short cut and avoid any potential trouble.
The latest being a young couple from further South who were up on holiday with their 2 staffie dogs. It was a horrible wet day and as they came down the track (she had wellies, he had trainers on
) they came face to face with the bull, cows and calves.
Thankfully the female in this couple had the sense to warn her partner as he was just striding towards the bull with the dogs straining at the leash!!!
It was luck really that I'd even seen them and I shouted to them to backtrack and come through our gate at the top which they did and were very grateful (even if the bloke slipped and fell several times in his stupid trainers) and we even made their day as 6 goat kids had been born the day before so they got to see them on their detour
I suppose one of the points I was originally trying to make was that, as Anke says farmers get hurt every day by their own livestock, but what chance do holiday makers who don't know the potential dangers have?