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Posted By: davidcycleback

Having grown up in Dairy Country where the cows spent their summer days free to roam vast natural fields, I can tell you that cows prefer grazing to running and would consider it abusive to be forced to run around a track. Left to their own devises, cows stand, lie down or walk slowly.

When I was a kid, there were what we called 'cow paths,' which were narrow dirt paths made by a heard of dairy cows taking the same route over and over. As the area was hilly and tricky and cows prefer level ground and simple routes, humans would follow these convenient, neat paths.