Riding Cows: How to Train SaddleCattle

by N.S. Rose

The first book in print solely dedicated to the art of training cattle for riding! The question sometimes crops can you ride cows? The answer is yes! Cultures all over the world have successfully trained cattle for riding for millennia - now it's your turn! Highly experienced UK-based anthrozoologist and cattle trainer Nat Rose details how to build a bond with a bovine and train it to competently carry you where you want to go, when you want to go there. Anyone can put a saddle on a cow and sit on it - they are very easygoing animals - but not everyone can convince them that doing your bidding is a good idea! Nat covers the long process leading up to getting in the saddle and beyond, explaining her unique method honed over many years of training many cattle to ride, pack, drive and perform with success!

94 pages, Paperback

Published September 26, 2019

About the author

"The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams." Said Oprah Winfrey - I've tried to go wherever my dreams have taken me.

From working in Manchester city centre to living for 9 years as a farmer's wife on a marsh, hand washing clothes and hand clipping sheep! I've taken in acting, falconry, basketweaving, ox training, archery, taxidermy, knitting, folklore, sword fighting, stunt riding, coracle sailing...and there's still plenty more to come ;)

An 'Anthrozoologist', my interest lies in the relationship mankind has with animals, in particular the hoofed stock, the animals which provide our meat, milk, leather, fibre and traction. I have a small herd of wild exmoor ponies, a very grumpy mule, a team of lovely oxen and a band of naughty sheep to keep me occupied.

This blog is a log of my anthrozoological journeys, experiences and musings and when I'm not experiencing adventures in the real world, I'm having them in my head and it makes its way to the page in the form of my fiction work - so I can take you on the adventure too!