Disappearing sheepdog
Apparently the sheepie started going missing for most of the day. After this had been going on for a brief time the owners discovered that they had a new person move into the neighbourhood. He had sold up a big sheep property and had come to live in the city. He bought a house on a big block with lots of garden and brought 3 sheep with him to keep him from missing sheep too much and to keep the grass short. Apparently the sheepie took very little time to realise that there were (gasp) sheep in the neighbourhood and he was leaving each morning, getting into the property and herding the three sheep into a corner of the yard and keeping them there all day. He was perfectly happy, the sheep were hungry and the grass was getting long before anyone realised what was going on. Instinct is an amazing thing!! Kind of reminded me of the cartoon of Sam and Ralph, sort of a clock on, clock off your day job scenario. |
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| That's a great story. I wish we had some neighbourhood sheep for Mady! |
 Poor sheep though  |
| I love the story. Thank you for sharing it. |
| They are discussing changing the bylaw here in Ottawa to allow urban chickens (I believe the group leading the charge is called CLUCK-something about liberating urban chickens). Anyway, I wonder if this would work with chickens? We could build a little coop in the back yard... |
| The flapping might drive a herding dog nuts. Whenever the birds would flap, MO would go nuts! It was the Great Pyr Shane who got us out of the business. We kept loosing new chicks and ducklings. Somehow he was getting the little ones....pushing in fence on the bottom.....or luring them some other way......and eating them. It was nice having very fresh eggs and when the hens got old.....fantastic chicken stew. |
| THAT IS SO FUNNY! Mim, I love that story!!! |
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