Only in Britain (Picture: Craig Hardman/National Trust)

This really is a stupid cow.

Well, actually, it’s a bullock, but we liked the double meaning. Anyway, he was found with his head tightly wedged in a tree by a visitor to stately home Trelissick House in Truro, Cornwall.

Staff at the National Trust property spent two hours chopping branches and chiselling away at the tree to release the cow.

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Craig Hardman, 28, who helped with the rescue effort, said: ‘The bullock wasn’t distressed, he was fine.



‘We don’t know why he put his head in there, but another cow has been back to the same spot so there must be some nutrient in there that they like.

‘The second cow also got stuck but was freed easily as we had already widened the hole the first time around.’