andrejpo - Recent messages

To all concerned hikers I report that the dangerous bull is no more - right after the unpleasant incident they put him in the barn, the next day he was taken "home" to the home barn in the valley. Still, some clarification is needed.
I know the shepherd very well and he told me his "own" story:
Both the shepherd and this same bull were on the pasture already last year. The bull was on the pasture for about a week this year until the unpleasant incident. In the first days of grazing he showed no aggression towards anyone. He was performing his "task" of inseminating cows. In previous years there were other bulls on the pasture (usually one or at most two) and there were no similar incidents. Such a situation can always happen but under the mentioned circumstances the probability is really small. What stimulus "disturbed" the bull to go berserk, probably no one knows.
Everyone who enters the pasture area is warned by "various" signs that there is a bull on the pasture. The notice is intended primarily for dog owners. Tense situations can indeed arise when a dog meets cows or a bull.
I largely agree with the writer megalodon how he experienced it, since I experienced a similar situation with my children myself on Menina pasture. Still, I reject blanket conclusions that someone doesn't control something. In areas where multiple interest groups cross (hikers, shepherds, livestock, wildlife, foresters...) one must live in coexistence and also understand each other. The shepherd himself deeply regrets the incident and acted as he had to. He isolated the bull and the owner took him to the valley. Any shepherd would do the same and on the other hand no shepherd in the future can prevent such incidents in advance.

Lots of nice hiking to all, and drop by the shepherd sometime, he is very friendly, if necessary you can even sleep in the hut or just sit in front of the hut in the sun and admire one of the most beautiful views of Triglav and its neighbors.