Safe encounters with grazing animals
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- Avoid contact with grazing livestock, do not feed the animals and keep a safe distance.
- Keep calm and don't frighten grazing animals.
- Mother cows protect their calves. Avoid encounters between mother caws and dogs.
- Always keep dogs under control and on a short leash. In case of an attack by grazing animal, let the dog off the leash immediately.
- Keep on marked trails while walking on pastures.
- If a grazing animal blocks the way, go around it and maintain the greatest possible distance.
- If grazing animals approach you, stay calm, do not turn your back and avoid the animals.
- At the first sign of animals' anxiety, leave the pasture as quickly as possible.
- Do not ignore fences! Use a gate if there is one, close it tightly and cross the pasture as quickly as possible.
- Treat the people working on the pastures, the nature and the animals with proper respect.
Summarized in Miteinander auf Österreichs Almen by Alpine Assocciation of Slovenia.