What shepherds do when they're bored...

[chayton]

...and NO, it's not what you think! This is actually pretty cool.

 

[jod5413]

That was really outstanding! Having bred and raised sheep for years, I can tell you they are not the brightest bulbs in the box. It took a lot of work and good dogs for that to work out. (of course I only mean the "real" sheep!)

Thanks, Chayton!

 

[Jasminebed]

And here I was afraid to open the vid. That's some awesome stuff.

 

[chayton]

yeah I know, someone sent it to me and I was afraid to open it too!

Those dogs are amazing - they can thread a sheep through the eye of a needle. I can't get my dog to stay off the couch.

 

[jod5413]

Yeah, those dogs are really smart. Flip side? If you do not keep them busy, they will tear your house apart! They are not quiet and easy going critters!

 

[chayton]

Yeah, those dogs are really smart. Flip side? If you do not keep them busy, they will tear your house apart! They are not quiet and easy going critters!

I used to have a border collie - I lived in an apartment so it wasn't that good for him, so I found him a home on a farm. But he used to go nutso over the oddest things. One day I was unpacking groceries and Max came strolling in and saw a loaf of bread on the counter and started barking his fool head off at it. And there was this one German deli in town and they had a sandwich board outside advertising their specials, it was like 5 feet tall and painted like a pig in a chefs hat - Max absolutely hated that pig! I started having to walk on the other side of the street just so he wouldn't attack it, but he'd still see it across the street and yell at it. I remember hoping that the farm he went to didn't have pigs.

 

[jod5413]

That's my point, Chayton. They actually go a bit "insane" unless they are tired at the end of the day! That's hysterical about the sign. And the pigs? If he was out there with a bunch of pigs, he would try to herd them. Unfortunately, pigs do not herd like sheep. Would be funny as Hell to watch though!

 

[chayton]

There used to be this show called Working Dogs or Dogs that Work or something like that - one episode the guy had a dog that tried to herd ants if it didn't have anything else. I need a dog like that to herd all the ants living in my backyard over to my neighbor's! Maybe herd the slugs out of my garden too.

 

[jod5413]

Good Luck with that!!