Years ago I made a trip to the Jackson county dump which was next to southern Michigan prison farmland.
We saw a truckload of black inmates drive out into the field with a load of hay. The cattle saw the hay and swarmed the truck causing the inmates to climb up on the truck in fear of the cows.
Yes, that’s a good anecdote to recall. That would happen. Cattle are scary. They’re so big, you know! ;-) Thanks for posting it.
There were a mess of lawsuits and accusations here against a rancher, after some people moved in from suburbs of eastern cities (tax break for residents for allowing rancher to graze cattle on unfenced lots—fears of cattle, fears of manure, fears of losing their cattle-chasing mutts, etc.).
Most of them are moving back to cities now after experiencing foreclosures, second thoughts about the weather, fewer services and the like. They pushed for tax hikes for more government services and got their way on some questionable tax hikes without voter approval. But now, the backlash is beginning against tax hikes for some time to come.
If they can’t survive around icky cattle, don’t see the demanded deference from ranchers to their expensive, cattle-chasing idols (suburban pets) and need snow plowing so much, maybe they would have difficulty trying to survive here with even smaller government in the near future.
They weren’t very social anyway—not in the country sense. Surviving some end of the world environment or other? Probably not likely for any of them except for a local preacher, who is also a jack of all trades.
I guess that moving to the country is a “wrong turn” for many nowadays. Bringing suburban desires to regulate more activities only drives beef prices up and house prices down (more realistic buyers avoiding metropolitan regulations and high taxes).
While I might not turn my back on certain bulls, kittens are more scary than cows. That crowd tends to be afraid of waterways so that might be a concideration.