Have I even been chased? No, because dog and I stand up to them and they back off. I have avoided cattle if they have the downhill advantage because they can't stop even if they wanted to. Sorry, I gone and done and said it all again!
Well your experience is totally different to mine.
Last year we ended up trapped in a corner of a field with a herd of cows about 20 in all.
About ten attacked our dog. The wife, daughter and me had to run for it. Letting go of the dogs lead so he could catch us up.
This was after i stood my ground.
Only this Sunday, whilst crossing a field with cows in we had a problem.
6 of us crossing the field. Two dogs. One very small and mine a tall Springer.
The cows started to walk towards us.
I stood my ground letting the group walk away from me. The cows kept coming towards me. I then waved my arms about and moved towards them. The cows kept coming towards me and then started to run at me and the dog.
I let go of the dog and ran back to the stile i had just come over.
I then called the dog and pulled him over. With the cows now about 10ft away from him and still coming at us.
I walked away as they could still see the dog and they would not move no matter, what i did to scare them away.
I then started to get my map out. To work out how i could meet the group again. It was at this point i saw the cows moving away quite quick. Lost Again then came over the stile. They had moved when he waved his arms about.
We then went to go back through the field. Only for the cows to come towards us again. No matter what we did they would not moved as they could see the dog.
So i would say to anyone be very,very wary of cows and if they come towards you, be prepared to run like the wind.