The Adventure of the Hard Headed Cow,

I may have mentioned before in this blog that I live in the middle of a cow pasture. My house is situated near the corner of a 620 acre full section. There is a fence surrounding the house that encloses about one acre. The cows come right up to the fence.

Well except for one. This hard headed red cow has decided that the grass is greener on my side of the fence. She has gotten in numerous times over the last week or so. And every time she gets in she is more determined to stay in.

She gets in by first pushing the fence down with her neck then she jumps over. The first few times she did this we just opened the gate and herded her out. As I said she gets harder to chase out each time she gets in. My wife found that whacking her with a broom worked once. Yesterday she got in and was happily munching on grass. My wife tried to chase her out but the cow wasn't moving. Wife got a 2x4 and was slapping hard head on the butt with it. Hard head just stood there and munched grass. Well, the wife eventually got her to go.

This morning she was back in the yard. I tried to shoo her toward the gate, but she just looked at me. I shortly gave that up and went inside and got my 12 gauge pump. I stood behind the cow and fired that into the air. On the third shot she finally decided that she should move. But did she head for the wide open gate right in front of her? No. She headed around behind the house, me still right behind her firing into the air. My ears are still ringing. It was about the time I got around the corner of the house that I realized my wife was standing on the porch laughing her head off at me.

I guess it made a pretty silly site, me yelling at this cow, firing the shotgun into the air and the cow meandering along not all that worried.The cow eventually got to the back fence and decide to jump over. Of course the stupid thing got her hind foot hung in the fence and nearly tore my fence down before I could get it loose. She then proceeded to mosey on over about ten feet from the fence and turn back and look at me.

So I spent a good part of my day adding a strand of barbed wire to the top of my fence. I didn't really want to put barbed wire on there. But maybe that stupid cow will gut her self on it next time she jumps it.





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