they seemed pretty nonchalant about having their picture taken... I didn't ask this time cause I had the feeling they wouldn't care.
They kept whacking the cows with a stick to get them to hike up the right trail. Touching them isn't taboo or anything, or at least doesn't seem to be.
the cows are pretty much disregarded and left to their own means, usually scavenging for edible trash in the city or just lying in the middle of the highway. If a cow happens to block a one-lane road (which is often), it gets a long, almighty honk from the driver as it slowly saunters aside.
Um, and occasionally they would be roughly redirected away from a doorway or something. And once I saw a child hit one in the face (I scolded her). All in all they're treated pretty much as squirrels or any other ubiquitous city animal. Big ones with horns, though, that sometimes try to buck you.
They're actually very beautiful and healthy-looking, especially considering their diet of garbage.
Now you've got me wanting to write an essay on the interface of cows and humans...
during a 5-hour downhill hike in the Himalays near Rishikesh, we passed a few children herding their cows uphill...
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i'm curious.. always have been... how do they treat cattle? are they able to touch them, guide them, and did you have to ask to take a picture?
they seemed pretty nonchalant about having their picture taken... I didn't ask this time cause I had the feeling they wouldn't care.
They kept whacking the cows with a stick to get them to hike up the right trail. Touching them isn't taboo or anything, or at least doesn't seem to be.
the cows are pretty much disregarded and left to their own means, usually scavenging for edible trash in the city or just lying in the middle of the highway. If a cow happens to block a one-lane road (which is often), it gets a long, almighty honk from the driver as it slowly saunters aside.
Um, and occasionally they would be roughly redirected away from a doorway or something. And once I saw a child hit one in the face (I scolded her). All in all they're treated pretty much as squirrels or any other ubiquitous city animal. Big ones with horns, though, that sometimes try to buck you.
They're actually very beautiful and healthy-looking, especially considering their diet of garbage.
Now you've got me wanting to write an essay on the interface of cows and humans...
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