I don't know what to think myself about dehorning.

Mr.Windham's cattle are all polled, and he has an open space in his barn for them, instead of keeping them in stalls, and he says they're more comfortable and not so confined.

I suppose in sending cattle to sea, it's necessary to take their horns off, but when they're going to be turned out to grass, it seems like mutilating them.
Our cows couldn't keep the dogs away from the sheep if they didn't have their horns.

Their horns are their means of defense." "Do your cattle stand in these stalls all winter ?" asked Miss Laura.
"Oh, yes, except when they're turned out in the barnyard, and then John usually has to send a man to keep them moving or they'd take cold.
Sometimes on very fine days they get out all day.

You know cows aren't like horses.