Out Our Way: Dealing with a stampede - Ephesians 4:25 - 5:2

Out our way, us greenhorns sometimes rely more on TV and the movie than common sense when it comes to working cows. I remember being caught in a mini-stampede during a roundup. Some 25 head panicked and broke from the herd when someone started blowing the horn on his pickup truck. These were range cows and not pasture cattle, so they tended to be a bit more frisky when branding time came around.

Now, in the movies and on TV, I had seen the hero stop the stampede by racing amongst the herd to the front and turning the lead cow so that the rest of the herd would follow and by turning constantly...