cows is cows, get on with it. Be sensible, and confident and get on with it. I too have been used to cows since the age dot.

Re the tongue thing, nothing much wrong there apart from they are raspy, but there's something lovely about the suckling calf who mouths your hand.

Most animals can be moved (farm ones) unless you ar Seamus the horrible (uncle's bull - nasty piece of work, I'm sure he was part scillian, he had an everlasting memory and was meaner than a mean thing) - note it's in the past tense.

Farmers have to get on with their work, and so what if there's bullocks in the field.

I used to do some archaeological digs in my summer hols, and always remember sitting in my trench thinking someone was watching me, and then I had the hot breath on my neck. I turned around and leaning over the rope barrier in to my trench was a line of cows who'd come to see what I was doing. I just explained to them what it was and they all had a little lecture. Nothing else happened, I worked, they watched (so what else is new).

Countryside = cows and other animals , countryside isn't all free from danger it's not all sanitised and it's the farmers land, countryside is what it says on the tin. WIth it comes animals of all sorts, they were there first. You visit sometimes.

The ramblers and countryside code say:

Wild animals and farm animals can behave unpredictably if you get too close, especially if they're with their young - so give them plenty of space.