Animals traumatised by WRC event Nambucca Valley

Cows and a horse at Welsh's Creek Macksville in the half an hour before the WRC event hits the top end of Welsh's Creek Road They are milling around in a very unusual pattern, clearly aware that something was happening further down the valley.

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• cattle
• animals
• traumatic
• world rally car event
• Talarm
• Macksville
• Coffs Harbour
• australia

[elitepetpaws]

I am the first to agree with you that slaughter yards are not nice places but disagree that sale yards are, the ones at Macksville are operated humanely. I did move these cattle from the road but could not move them from a helicopter that insisted on buzzing their hiding place for almost an hour. I also spent that hour trying to get onto the race co-ordinators to tell them the cattle were in danger of stampeding. Funny they did not answer any of their phones.

[elitepetpaws]

Cows don't normally stand huddled up in the corner of a paddock and if you look closely they do not look contented. As for fireweed - it is not toxic to cows and horses or else all the cows and horses in the Nambucca Valley would have died years ago. This video also points out this was before the cars and the helicopter hit out end of the valley. Take a look at the other videos when they arrived and there is no way you would describe these animals as peaceful.

[joelwpayne]

You should go to the saleyards and slaughter yards with your cattle, then you might have a idea what tramuatised animals look like.. Why did you not move them away from the road? To pretend to care for them but do nothing to but film them in such "distress", shame on you!

[hm07hm]

They look very peaceful. I'd suggest more WRC for those animals. Maybe instead of complaining about an event which as the video suggests, did not effect the animals, pull out that fireweed next to the fence. It's toxic to them.