Questions for non-Brits.

He was indeed Ruth; a modified version of it anyway, called BPS ( Bovine Positioning System) the origins of which, date back to the early '60s when the DoD suddenly realised that Rowdy Yates & Co.of Rawhide fame had left Texas for Kansas, but never actually got there, for they kept loosing the cows and wasting time trying to find them. Now today, the modern day rancher has no such problems--they just round them up, and head 'em out, and keep those doggies rollin' all the way to the airport, and none of them get lost, so they don't miss the flight, If one does go astray, a Moos Missile easily deals with it, and the errant cow is soon back on track. 

You're quite right Ruth. That would certainly been out of favour with Gil Favor.

They were actually headed for Sedalia, Missouri--possibly via Kansas, by which time they were hopelessly lost. But, it did give Mr Eastwood one of his more memorable lines from the era after a stampede and a cow giving him a hard time-----

"During all the stampede, I can't recall just how many shots I fired. Was it 5 or was it 6?

Make my day, cow!"  Back in those days, being bar coded meant you knew the password to get into the Long Branch saloon. Being then tagged meant you were in Miss Kitty's good books.  If you were neither, you were sent down to see Festus, who gave you a number---as he wasn't able to spell your name. It's all his fault really, today.

Paul, LOL.  You silly goose, you're mixin up yer rawhide with yer gunsmoke. 

Miss Kitty was from Phoenix, by the way.  And my friend who uses the expression, "Finer than frogs hair," he reminds me of Festus 'agen.