I grew up with everything on a little farm. We used to lick the salt block, ride horses bareback, chase the chickens and scratch the cows. Until a little one decides back up to start chasing you. I guarantee, when the chase begins you can run faster than a deer, hit the ground like a Yankee batter, and slide under the lowest string of barb wire like a seal on the sand. This nature worship generation will learn. We worship the God of nature, not nature.
It sounds like we have a lot in common. I have still got lumps in my head from falling off horses I was riding bareback and also being kicked. However I was never chased by a bovine critter or even kicked by one. But cattle like people can behave differently depending on what type and the personality of the heard. Our bulls were docile, if they were eating you could crawl all over them. Cows can be protective of the calves at times. We had to be careful when I was young all of our cattle had horns and they could poke you by accident if you were trying to lure them somewhere with a bucket of grain, or if you were in the middle of a bunch of them and they got spooked.
We had a bunch of deep mud on our property and occasionally a horse would get stuck in it. We actually lost a couple that way. But a cow could be floating in mud and still be trying to eat whatever was near it. We would get behind it and whack it with something and they could always extricate themselves.
I agree that people today have little understanding of farm animals for the most part. I have a couple very sad stories relating to this.