Cattle Cattle were domesticated mammal s native to Earth . The males were called bulls , and the females were called cows . ( TV : " Image of the Fendahl " ) Clyde Langer once succinctly said — while he was looking after the baby Sky Smith — that " cows eat grass , and they make milk and they go " moooo " . . . [ and ] they also make steak . " ( TV : " Sky " ) Indeed , Rose Tyler once suggested to the Ninth Doctor that being out of cow ' s milk was a part of the reason that they often ended up back on Earth . " All the species in the universe , " the Doctor replied , " and it has to come out of a cow . " ( TV : " The Empty Child " ) Many restaurants served cow meat . ( TV : " The Bells of Saint John " ) Encounters with cows . The Doctor and his companion s and acquaintances occasionally dealt with cattle . The Doctor . After materialising in a field , the Second Doctor and companions turned on the TARDIS scanner to see the face of a curious cow staring at them . ( TV : " The Invasion " ) The Third Doctor , John Benton and Mike Yates were attacked by cattle infected with the Sild . In defence , they shot them all , disgusting the Doctor . ( PROSE : " Harvest of Time " ) The Fourth Doctor once landed the TARDIS amongst a herd of cattle and facetiously asked them ( calling them " ladies " ) if they had a time scanner , to no avail . ( TV : " Image of the Fendahl " ) The TARDIS materialised in the middle of a herd of cattle again when the Seventh Doctor visited Llanfer Ceiriog . ( PROSE : " " ) The Eighth Doctor also liked to talk to cows . After Destrii and he had defeated the Cybermen , he landed the TARDIS in a pasture . He spoke to the cows , telling them what a great day it was to have saved the universe . Noticing he had lost his frock coat in the battle , Destrii suggested that he would look good in leather ( she was wearing a black leather jacket ) . The Doctor replied that that Destrii was once again " charming the locals " , indicating that leather came from cattle . ( COMIC : " The Flood " ) On another occasion , the Eighth Doctor ( who was then split into three bodies ) , Charley Pollard and C ' rizz encountered cows in the Garden of Curiosities . This meant that cattle existed not only off - Earth , but in completely different dimension s . One of the three Eighth Doctors noted that cows could become dangerous if they herded together and stampeded . He seemed particularly concerned about cow hooves during a stampede . ( AUDIO : " Caerdroia " ) In 1913 , the Sixth Doctor and Peri Brown witnessed the heavens open up to dump cows on the beaches of Ostend , Belgium . This was cause by a time bomb sending the cows back in time . ( AUDIO : " Year of the Pig " ) Companions . Tegan Jovanka lived on a cattle farm when she was young . ( AUDIO : " Psychodrome " ) While briefly a vampire , Nyssa feasted on the blood of a cow in the fields outside Manchester in the 1990s . ( PROSE : " Goth Opera " ) Bernice Summerfield once experienced a freak time anomaly in which leather shoes were turned back into cows . However , the time anomaly only restored the cows to shortly before they were turned into leather . The floors of the Gigamarket were littered with dead cows . ( AUDIO : " The Greatest Shop in the Galaxy " ) Others . The Wholeweal community kept cattle . ( TV : " The Green Death " ) While walking near a Buddhist meditation centre in England , Mike Yates walked past a group of cattle . ( TV : " Planet of the Spiders " ) Dr Scotus , a veterinarian working near Cardiff , once examined a cow that had begun eating " other " cows because it had been affected by an alien tapeworm which had come through the rift . ( PROSE : " Slow Decay " ) Even the Doctor ' s enemies used cows on occasion : Zygon s once used body - print s to take the form of cows , as they were allowed to roam freely . As was necessary for the proper operation of body - print technology , the Zygons stored the real cows in their ship . ( PROSE : " Sting of the Zygons " ) When human ity became a space - faring race , they took cows with them to the stars . As Earth ' s influence spread , cattle were shipped across the galaxy , to planets such as Jadea ( PROSE : " Placebo Effect " ) and Sarath . ( PROSE : " City at World ' s End " ) Maxine Andrews grew up on her father ' s cattle farm outside Castic City on Insculpo . ( AUDIO : " The Memory Bank " ) References . In addition to actual encounters with cows , there were a number of cases in which cows were referenced . On the planet Dido , Barbara Wright speculated that David Campbell was teaching Susan Foreman how to milk cows on post - Dalek Earth . ( TV : " The Powerful Enemy " ) When Steven Taylor still disbelieved the Doctor ' s claim that the TARDIS was a time machine , even after being shown a horned Viking helmet , the Doctor asked him if he thought it was a space helmet for a cow . ( TV : " The Watcher " ) Though some believed it a myth , the Eighth Doctor claimed that cattle could tell when it was going to rain and would sit down so that they would have a patch of dry grass to eat from . He said that , like cows , he could tell when it was going to rain , and when something was wrong . ( PROSE : " Placebo Effect " ) In 1979 , Professor Chronotis commented that he could alleviate his lack of milk by keeping a cow . ( HOMEVID : " Shada " , WC : " Shada " ) On Voga , Sarah Jane Smith ' s ankles were bound by chains . In the effort to free her , Harry Sullivan accidentally hit one of her ankles . When it became swollen , he told her that the ankle was as " thick as a cow ' s . " ( TV : " Revenge of the Cybermen " ) The Second Doctor noted that cows were always very friendly to him . ( PROSE : " One Small Step . . . " ) King Garth offended the natives of Corpos Delta when he compared them to cows . ( PROSE : " Placebo Effect " ) When explaining to the Tenth Doctor and Rose Tyler that the Ood were a herd race in 43K2 . 1 , Danny Bartock compared them to cattle . ( TV : " The Impossible Planet " ) The Editor of Satellite Five referred to human ity as cattle . ( TV : " The Long Game " ) Elliot Sardick thought the same . ( TV : " A Christmas Carol " ) The legendary Minotaur had the form of a human with the head of a bull . ( TV : " The Mind Robber " , TV : " The Time Monster " ) As a metaphor for how her client protected his human flock , Miss Kizlet said , " No one loves cattle more than Burger King . " ( TV : " The Bells of Saint John " ) The Sycorax referred to humans as cattle . ( TV : " The Christmas Invasion " ; PROSE : " The Final Darkness " ; AUDIO : " Harvest of the Sycorax " ) The Valethske had a domesticated species on their home planet that they referred to as cattle . ( PROSE : " Superior Beings " ) As an insult . " Cow " was also used as an insult . Clara Oswald once called the TARDIS a " grumpy old cow . " ( TV : " Hide " ) Martha Jones also called Eve a " scheming cow " . ( PROSE : " The Last Dodo " ) Before Heather Lake defeated the Mavora Queen , she called it a cow . ( COMIC : " The Broken Man " ) Sally Sparrow called Kathy Nightingale a " lying cow " upon realising that Kathy had lied about her age while she examined her grave . ( TV : " Blink " ) Bob Hall thought of his landlady in London as an " old cow . " ( PROSE : " The Evil of the Daleks " )