If you're getting your knowledge animals and animal care from the media please take a job on a working farm or ranch for a year. I happen to know that Ebbie knows from experience whereof she speaks -- years of it.

Welsh Black cattle can weigh nearly a ton (2,000 lbs.) for both male and female. Santa Gertrudis, bred over a century ago, can weigh even more. Even a common Jersey or Guernsey milk cow outweighs a human by a few hundred pounds (well, most humans). And if you've ever been caught between a stall wall and an ordinary "gentle" milch cow (as I have) you'd know how strong they are.

The last "real" horse encounter I had was outside Freepot, Maine, with an animal that had moved there from Montana. I was stroking its nose, talking nicely to it, when it clamped its teeth on my right arm just below the elbow. The pain was pretty great, but I handled it as a True Horse Whisperer would. My left hand took hold of the horse's ear and I whispered the magic phrase known to all cowboys, "Let go, you goddamn sonuvabitch or I'll twist your f*****g ear off!" And he let go. Of course, I had bite bruises for weeks....