I was running beefers, about 60 at the time 1993, and I had this one Angus cross that had never given me any problems. She may have been a little high strung but I have seen worse. I knew she was due to calve and was out in the pasture so I kept an eye on here from the house with binoculars. When she calved she looked ok so I didn't go up right away. About 4 hours later I saw her up and thrashing around and with binoculars I could see a fox trying to get to the calf or afterbirth, I'm not sure which. I grabbed my pistol and set out with my Border Collie Skippy. I always made him stay back about 100 ft when they calved as they could get quite nervous and agitated. By the time I got there she had gone through a triple strand of high tinsel, electric fence pushing the calf through too. Also by then the fox was gone so I opened the fence to drive her and the calf back in. This was maybe 50 to 60 feet and she was faceing me. I reached out and tapped her on the bridge of the nose with my walking stick and she and the wobbily calf started out. About half way she stopped and turned to look at me and I was just about to tap here with my stick and she charged with her head down. She caught me at my knees and flipped me up in the air and I came down striking her left side. I no sooner hit the ground and she had turned around and came down on me with both front feet and backed up enough to put her head down mash me with her head. When I could catch my breath enough to call my dog he was already there and he was not happy with the cow. He is normally pretty easy with them but I am glad he wasn't this time because she did not want to give up. After a moment I was able to look up and my dog had ahold of her left face and was not letting go even though she was swing him around with his feet at least 18 inches off of the ground. She soon decided she had enough of this and pulled back and the dog let go but layed down between her and me glancing at me but keeping an eye on her. After awhile I was able to get up and start to slowly walk toward the house but I wasn't breathing well at all. My dog Skippy stayed behind me keeping an eye on the cow but she never came after me again. The trouble was I had to crawl through 2 fences and cross one creek. I could only walk about 20-30 feet and stop to rest. My wife was mowing lawn on the opposite side of the house and had no clue to the goings on. Finnally with about 150 ft to go and through all of the fences, Skippy went tearing ahead and around the house. My wife told me later that he would stand in front of the mower and not let her move. She decided she should come around the house to see if every thing was OK. Seeing it wasn't she got the car and drove out accross the field to get me as I was only able to take 3 or 4 steps at a time now. She asked if I wanted to call an ambulance and I said no, I have made it this far and I would ride to the hospital in the car, which was only about 6 or 7 miles. When I got there I was so stiff I couldn't move and they had a bad time getting me out of the car. I spent a week in the hospital with five broken ribs and internal bruises and bleeding. If Skippy had not been there I am certain the cow would have killed me. She sure had a good start. Some people asked me why I didn't shoot her as I had my pistol but the way she was hammering me I couldn't get it out of my holster and if I had I probably would have shot my self as I was being tossed and hammered constantley. Needlessly to say she went to the butcher a few days later. That cow had been born on this place and this was her third calf without any problems in the past. I guess she just flipped out!
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