News channels calling coloured cobs "cows"

[tallyho!]

I have noticed this three or four times now on news channels online describing flood situations.

Just because they are black and white, does not mean they are cows!

 

[Shysmum]

 

[**Vanner**]

Super cows I will accept!

 

[katie_southwest]

Quite a few times out hacking people have said my mare looks like a cow!!!!!

 

[Enfys]

Some people just aren't horsey some don't even want to be
and to be honest, if you have a mixed bunch of cattle and coloured horses, at a glance they do kind of look alike except to the cognoscenti.

 

[tallyho!]

Good word nadolig!

 

[justabob]

Some people just aren't horsey some don't even want to be
and to be honest, if you have a mixed bunch of cattle and coloured horses, at a glance they do kind of look alike except to the cognoscenti.

I can NEVER tell the difference either!

 

[mrogers]

i have a coloured pony and I still call it a cow, in fact her name is Mooco (as in Moo Cow)

 

[nosenseofdirection]

My mare can't tell the difference! Spooks at coloured horses just in case they turn out to be cows...

 

[Spanish Eyes]

Reminds me of when my 86 year old mother told me she seen some cows wearing rugs

 

[Enfys]

I have one that would get lost in a herd of Herefords

Spanisheyes, loving the cows in rugs comment

 

[Tarbs]

I was at a yard where one of the other liveries didn't want my boy in the field next to her thoroughbred mares as they didn't like cows and they might mistake my piebald cob for a cow!

Can't post what I said in reply!

 

[**Vanner**]

I was at a yard where one of the other liveries didn't want my boy in the field next to her thoroughbred mares as they didn't like cows and they might mistake my piebald cob for a cow!

Can't post what I said in reply!

 

[tallyho!]

 

[smellsofhorse]

I have a coloured but no way
does he look like a cow!
He is tb!

Idiots!

 

[TheoryX1]

Our coloured mare (KWPN/TB), can be a cow!

 

[Shysmum]

Well to be quite fair here, with my last beloved horse, we often rode through fields of cows/calves - and the cows thought he was "mummy". Literally

But we both thought it was great fun, especially going for for a full on cattle charge - fantastic !

 

[Holding]

Those poor cows - how embarrassing to look so similar to a cob.

 

[sidesaddlegirl]

LOL, I saw that ITV report about the "cows" last night too

http://www.itv.com/news/central/upd...tion_id=288381481237582&fb_source=aggregation

 

[tallyho!]

Just shows how few people know anything about animals at all....

Since when do cows have manes...?

 

[Enfys]

Just shows how few people know anything about animals at all....

Since when do cows have manes...?

I read that as names at first!

But how are those not in the know to know that? They probably think that this is a sort of cow...(antelope actually)

Education is the way forward, inform the media of the error of their ways

 

[Shysmum]

Horses hogged may look closer to a bovine than an equine

 

[katherine1975]

I was showing a friends two year old son some pictures on my phone. Showed him our coloured mare and he said 'cow'!

 

[tallyho!]

I read that as names at first!

But how are those not in the know to know that? They probably think that this is a sort of cow...(antelope actually)

Education is the way forward, inform the media of the error of their ways

Aha! I have spotted the problem!!!

If only cows were allowed to keep their horns... there would be no mistaking them then.....

Two horns = cow

One horn = broken cow

 

[ridefast]

Well whenever I ride my mare through fields of cows they all form an orderly queue and follow her, with the leader sticking it's nose up her bottom. She likes the attention. I was riding through a field once wondering where the cows were that I knew were in said field, turned around and we had a lovely line of cows following us Pooface hadn't even acknowledged them.
But not all cows are coloured... Maybe those places I think are tb studs are actually beef farms

 

[lastchancer]

Had a super heavy red and white mare, sometimes even I wasn't sure if she was equine or bovine. Mind you she did have cloven feet...and horns....