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Title: Bored Scottish Sheep Herders
Post by: Parker Thomson on December 05, 2011, 06:15:51 PM

http://www.wimp.com/sheeplight/ (http://www.wimp.com/sheeplight/)

What Bored Scottish Sheep Herders Do!  :o

Title: Re: Bored Scottish Sheep Herders
Post by: Mary on December 05, 2011, 07:19:34 PM

Aren't these some of the GREATEST evidence of coordination and cooperation between man and his dogs???  This comes out every year and I WATCH it every year! It still amazes me.

When Tom and I lived in Michigan, we had a flock of about 150 ewes and, usually, two working dogs. I taught them to gently hold an individual sheep, get a designated sheep out of the flock, move them from one field to another, sort some out and hold the others, separate them from the cattle, etc. but I wouldn't have had a clue how to train them to do this!

Thank you for posting it!

Title: Re: Bored Scottish Sheep Herders
Post by: Ernest Thompson on December 05, 2011, 09:35:39 PM

Thanks Parker, That is incredible.
I always knew us Baaa-studs were clever folk.
Ern

Title: Re: Bored Scottish Sheep Herders
Post by: Sis Thompson's oldest on December 09, 2011, 11:46:40 AM

Un-freakin' believable! 
Bored sheepherders indeed! Who would have thought to put christmas lights on sheep and those dogs are amazing!
Thanks for sharing.  ;D