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By L. Ballou - correspondent
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ATTACK BY 2000 POUND COW
By L. Ballou - correspondent EXCLUSIVE TO THE ANIMAL ATTACK FILES ©2000 Animal Attack FIle/L. Ballou. All rights reserved. While I have no footage of this to show, as I was the only adult around, I do have a story about an animal attack I recently endured. On Monday March 20th, my
2000 lb Angus Heifer gave birth to her first calf. She was in a 10x12
stall. I opened the door, and she exited, and I went inside to check
on the baby. I never got closer than 8 feet. The mother then
came back into the stall and began eating the grain I had just given her.
She rammed me in the back
with her head, sending me face first into a
At this point, I was on my back screaming at Onxy (the cow) to stop- not that it did any good. She rammed my thigh and rolled me over, then my shoulder. I had attempted to kick at her, but missed. I have never felt such a sense of terror- I knew I had no control over anything that had, or would happen. I also knew there was no one around to help. In the house were two of my children, 4 and almost 2. I hoped my husband had heard me scream for him to call for help. He was at work, about 20 minutes away. I remembered watching bear
attacks on TV, and decided to try the advice given there- roll into a ball
and stay still and quiet. As I was trying to make my limbs move into
this position, she again rammed me with her head, this time in my side
knocking the wind out of me. She literally threw me
I saw my milk cow, Pearl,
heading in my direction, and I could hear the cows in other fields mooing
wondering what was going on- I'm not sure exactly what happened next- I
saw Pearl with her head lowered trotting towards Onxy's back end, then
I think Pearl head butted her. Onxy turned to look behind her, and
I crawled away as fast as I could until I was under the electric fence
and out of the pasture. I then crawled to the house to my other
I was very fortunate- no broken bones from this incident, just a lot of bruises and emotional scars. I have nightmares about this attack every day, and can not bear to go into the pasture where this cow is. We are in the process of selling her. I can not rationalize why
this happened- and unless it's happened to you, I don't think you really
grasp the sheer terror. I've seen lots of TV shows on attacks, and
we all gasp and awe at the poor person on the receiving end, and are amazed
when they survive- but until you yourself have been in such a position
of complete helplessness, especially coming from an animal though to be
fairly non-aggressive, you can never really understand the level of fear
you expereience. Couple that with the fear of knowing there is NO
ONE around to help you-
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