Machka 

Reminds me of the sheep in Wales!

The campgrounds in Wales are, for the most part, nothing more than sheep pastures with a little sign indicating that they are "official campgrounds". With some you might be lucky enough to get a toilet block ... with others it's just you and nature!

When we arrived at this particular campground we set up our tent near the toilet block, and noticed the sheep way down in another pasture. That was fine ... they wouldn't be disturbing us. Night fell, and I was deep in sleep ... the first rays of dawn crept above the horizon and ... BAAAAAAAA!!!!!! right by my head!! Followed by about a million more BAAAAAs. The whole flock had moved into the pasture where we had pitched and were having a huge discussion about this strange thing that has planted itself in the middle of their breakfast pasture!!

As You Like It

My husband always moos at cows. I don't. I don't have a good voice for moo-ing.

I do, however, have an excellent voice for imitating chickens, and I can make the noise a rooster makes when he finds something really good to eat and wants the hens to come over and investigate. It's a little, high-pitched, rapid "pook-pook-pook-pook-pook." I can actually fool real chickens. I can get them to come and flock around me. One of my neighbors was keeping a rooster last summer (yes I live in town, but I have a neighbor who had a bantam rooster) and so I went to the back of the fence in the alley because I wanted a better look at the rooster, and "pook pooked" at the rooster for a moment, and he came sidling up to me, all like "hey, what's another rooster doing on my turf."

I can also do excellent guinea pig noises, but cows, not so much.

Bekologist

I always thought Doctor Doolittle was a little bit smarter than the average human!

He was one of my childhood movie heroes.

Olebiker

I was born on a farm in Kentucky. I would hate to think what would happen if one of my relatives found a bicyclist camped in his pasture. Where I came from, you can get off for shooting someone with the simple argument, "Yer honor, he needed shootin'."

wfin2004

Quit "mooing" at my former wife. She is the only cow that I know.

Rogerinchrist

I sure hope I run into you out on the road somewhere. Like when I'm having a really bad day. You know when your broke, tired, and really HUNGRY!

John N

Out here in Oklahoma, we can get some pretty big ranches and herds. I onced mooed a large herd and dang if the whole herd didn't start running after me. Must have been over 200 head. Scared the !@#$ out of me as they were at a full run and only the barbed wire was holding them back. After about a 1/2 mile, I had a downhill so I got away from them.

I once told a friend that I mooed cows and he asked quite seriously "Why would you want to show them your boney butt?"

Happy Trails, John

HelenHeart

Last time I mooed at cows they all ran away, I musta laughed for 10 miles. My favorite was when I sang Lonely Goatherder, to a bunch of goats...they all looked up at me at the exact same moment, I loved it.
I get kinda sad when a friendly horse starts to run towards you, then stops as they realize you aren't stopping...then they look like a forlorn puppy!!

coconut in IA

Moo, Moo, Talk, share a moment or give them a big kiss. I even check giant boars for testicular cancer *I named him lance*.... It's amazing what vodka lemonaids will make ya do.

Cheers,

Coco

Hospengr

Just like Cytoman, I moo at cows too. Just did it on the C2K this last Saturday. Must run in the family!

chrisch

Haha.. I sure do, and there are plenty of them out here in Switzerland!

Tom Stormcrowe

I have to admit it, I do too!

midnightsimon

I talk to alost all of the animals I see

Speedo

I never moo at cows, but I do whinny at horses.

Miguelangel

Does it count in spanish???
MUUUUUU !!!!!!
Well.... no wonder cows in USA never understand me !!!!

gizem310

not only i moo, but i moo in different tones just to make sure that i am well understood. i usually start with the usual moooo, then switch to something like meuuuuuu and then try different accents such as muuuuu and maaaaaaa. i end the symphony with the good ole moooo.
happy cows come from switzerland.

Burningman

I always doooo

FROryder

After eight or nine hours in the saddle I'll moo at anything

McDave

The cows moo at people around here, especially when they're hungry. How weird is THAT!

avatarworf

Of course I moo at them!!! And I cluck at chickens and baaaaaa at sheep and neigh at horses.

Yeah, okay, we've been on the bikes too long.

Tom Stormcrowe

Wouldn't it be weirder if the cows walked up and said with an upper crust Harvard accent, "I say, my good man, but could you please pass me that barley sack? It's time for my repast!"

I think I prefer them mooing!

Cosmoline

Not too many cows up here, but I say "MOOOSE" whenever I see a moose on my commute.

meanderthal

Bovine Etiquette

Cows do not consider it rude when we moo, even if we’ve not yet been properly introduced. But have you ever noticed the knowing glances they often exchange when we speak to them directly, without the assistance of a translator? This usually happens because we have used poor grammar. Cows have no expressions meaning “How gauche!” or “Ha Ha Ha!”, and so they are left to ruminate silently on our ignorance, a break in chewing cadence the only clue pointing to their exasperation.

A full treatise on cowspeak is not my object here, but let me mention the one faux pas of which we are all guilty: we have been using the word moo as an interjection, whereas, if we had only known, it is actually a verb. Cow language has no interjections not associated with electric fences or Steer-Making Day, and we are only making fools of ourselves by our careless usage. For the aspiring student, here is the correct conjugation of the verb to moo:

PERSON SINGULAR PLURAL
First...........moo...........moo
Second.......moo...........moo
Third..........moo...........moo

It may be observed from this table that moo is a regular verb. Do not, under any circumstance, conjugate it as irregular! Using the obsolete forms—especially mieu, meu, mew, mooh and moops (remember George Castanza’s brouhaha over that last one!)—will mark you as ignorant beyond help.

Please, folks, help us all gain the respect of cows in pastures far and wide. To moo or not to moo? Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent, spoke the wise ancient, Dionysius the Elder. He was a cow person, you know!

crtreedude 

I always wondered how I said that down here!

mkauffman

I do at most cows, but my riding buddy thinks that I am crazy.