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A Border Collie's (Sheep Dog) Normal Day

Posted: August 7th, 2023, 11:12 pm
by AsleepInYorkshire
1 Minute Video

An outnumbered, outsized border collie ... no, I'm sorry ... I can't spoil it for you ... who comes off better .. collie or sheep :? :)

It may have you on the edge of your seat :)

AiY(D)

Re: A Border Collie's (Sheep Dog) Normal Day

Posted: August 8th, 2023, 12:12 am
by servodude
They are great dugs

I've known a few lazy ones as pets (even then you can find all the guests at a party standing in a tight circle withouht realising why ;) )
but the amount of work you can get from one that knows its job is simply amazing

This video is a fav of mine
Employee of the month

Re: A Border Collie's (Sheep Dog) Normal Day

Posted: August 8th, 2023, 12:20 am
by Mike4
servodude wrote:They are great dugs

I've known a few lazy ones as pets (even then you can find all the guests at a party standing in a tight circle withouht realising why ;) )
but the amount of work you can get from one that knows its job is simply amazing

This video is a fav of mine
Employee of the month


The thing I find spookiest is, how does the leading sheep know where the dog 100 yards behind 150 other sheep, want it to go?

Re: A Border Collie's (Sheep Dog) Normal Day

Posted: August 8th, 2023, 12:22 am
by servodude
Mike4 wrote:
servodude wrote:They are great dugs

I've known a few lazy ones as pets (even then you can find all the guests at a party standing in a tight circle withouht realising why ;) )
but the amount of work you can get from one that knows its job is simply amazing

This video is a fav of mine
Employee of the month


The thing I find spookiest is, how does the leading sheep know where the dog 100 yards behind 150 other sheep, want it to go?


I believe they're whipped before the division bell ;)

Re: A Border Collie's (Sheep Dog) Normal Day

Posted: August 8th, 2023, 12:27 am
by Mike4
servodude wrote:
Mike4 wrote:
The thing I find spookiest is, how does the leading sheep know where the dog 100 yards behind 150 other sheep, want it to go?


I believe they're whipped before the division bell ;)


Oh yeah, silly me!

I prefer "Breathe" and "Time" though.

Re: A Border Collie's (Sheep Dog) Normal Day

Posted: August 8th, 2023, 12:39 am
by servodude
Mike4 wrote:
servodude wrote:
I believe they're whipped before the division bell ;)


Oh yeah, silly me!

I prefer "Breathe" and "Time" though.


True - but this seems like an animals thread?
<reaches in to spotify for "dogs"/>

Re: A Border Collie's (Sheep Dog) Normal Day

Posted: August 8th, 2023, 10:22 am
by 88V8
AsleepInYorkshire wrote:An outnumbered, outsized border collie ... no, I'm sorry ... I can't spoil it for you ... who comes off better .. collie or sheep :? :)

Brilliant !
Sheep are big boggers when you get near... Up in the Lakes in May we were chased across two fields by hundreds of them, all round us, jostling, we had to leg it, don't know what they thought we had, no lunch....
Maybe they were just aving a larf.

V8

Re: A Border Collie's (Sheep Dog) Normal Day

Posted: August 9th, 2023, 10:37 am
by yorkshirelad1
My favourite: https://fb.watch/mj5MT044kt/
(OK, it's Mountain Rescue, not herding Sheep)

Re: A Border Collie's (Sheep Dog) Normal Day

Posted: August 10th, 2023, 5:28 pm
by bungeejumper
88V8 wrote:Sheep are big boggers when you get near... Up in the Lakes in May we were chased across two fields by hundreds of them, all round us, jostling, we had to leg it, don't know what they thought we had, no lunch....
Maybe they were just aving a larf.

Oh indeed. A former girlfriend had three ribs broken by a ewe that got stroppy. Herdwick, naturally. :D

BJ