Collective noun needed

[Joel S. Berson]

At 7/17/2012 04:50 PM, Garson O'Toole wrote:
>Joel S. Berson wrote
> >> Last week was "the running of the bulls" at Pamplona.  Today Good
> >> Morning America showed a video of a rather sedate excursion of some
> >> cattle, including little 'uns, through a small town in England.  What
> >> should that be called?  (The consensus on GMA seemed to be "the
> >> strolling of the cows".)
>
>Laurence Horn wrote
> > Well, if it wasn't *too* sedate, "the boogieing of the bovines"?
>
>For individuals who have no desire to eschew obfuscation:
>The ambulating of the bovids.

I'd settle for "the ambling of the cows".

Joel

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