Walking the dog isn’t always a peaceful outing. Sometimes there’s actual danger out there, both for your dog and you. When thinking about this, you probably tend to worry most about other, more aggressive dogs.

But if you live in farm country, there’s another aggressor species to avoid running into, at least at certain times of the year: cows.

Yes, cows. In Britain, they’ve trampled four dog owners to death in the last two months, Reuters reports.

Robert Sheasby of the National Farmers Union says  the cows are going after the dogs rather than deliberately attacking the humans, but, of course,

A letter to the editor in the morning paper got me thinking about dog licenses. (Also feeling sympathy for the letter writer, but I’d sympathize with anyone who’d lost their pet or been suspected unfairly, let alone both.)

Return home to find in the mailbox a notice from City of Toronto -- a pet license request. A warning that Big Brother "has reason to believe that you have an unlicensed pet ..."
Our beloved 13-year-old German shepherd died two months ago. She was licensed.
Toronto: broke, filthy, crumbling, violent. But the Pet Gestapo is looking out for our safety.

What’s the idea