From Andrea -
"That's for sure. Sounds like you touched a nerve with that gal. Since I did not grow up on a farm, I guess I see cows as big dogs. My rancher friends continually warn me to use caution around these Texas beef cattle - and I have had a few chase me. Luckily, I have gotten pretty adept at jumping fences. But Francie is different. I guess she thinks that I am her mother since I bottle-fed her from birth. She was abandoned during an ice-storm and buzzards tried to eat her. So I took her into the house and warmed her up! That was the end of that. She has been pretty attached to me ever since - and the feeling is mutual. Of course, she doesn't come into the living room any more. I go to her instead. For anyone who might be wondering - she will never be beef. She will forever just be a pet, along with Faith. Heck - they've ruined me. I can't even eat hamburger anymore!"

The bull visiting your heifer made me laugh - I had black angus years ago & they got out, to the neighbor's. I called & asked him if he'd seen them or if he'd put a bull out that day. He said, "Oh yah! Dey're here! Da bull yumped your heifers first t'ing! Yumped 'em good, he did!" We had 2 calves the next spring.
As for emotions - Cows are dumber than blocks, but that doesn't mean they are insensitive or without emotions.. Recently I was visiting friends who still farm & a cow fell as she was leaving the milking parlor. One of the boys prodded her & got no response. Another one threw down lime & put her feet on it; then I (a relative stranger, to her) walked up behind her & nudged her. She got up shaking, but she got up & went out. She was afraid from her fall, but she was more afraid of "a stranger" - not the most positive emotion, but sure beats a prod..