Absolutely Positively Have To Share This!!!!

Extreme Sheep Art

http://www.wimp.com/sheepart/

Too Cool! But I didn't see bordersandjacks name in the credits. LOL What's up with that Jenny? :-)

You gotta love the name of that production company.

Those guys certainly have too much time on their hands! Lol. It took a minute for me to catch on to the name!

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You have to say it with a British accent. LOL

Too cool!

Indeed! I watched it again and it cracked me up. Also makes me miss my Border Collie Sarah. She was an Alpha .. could not stand to have anyone get ahead of her. I watched her herd frogs once. Smartest dog I've ever known. She stunned my dad when he came up to High Springs to help with some work on the house. He said "Hand me a phillips screwdriver". Sara went to the tool box and grabbed a phillips screwdriver and brought it to him! She also used to pick up stick and drop them in a pile when I was going to mow the lawn, then herd the lawnmower. She loved to go to the beach and swim too. The picture was taken in the early 80's. I really miss her.

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Border collies are nice dogs if you have enough for them to do. My friend had one and the dog could load his own tennis ball launcher, fire it, chase the ball and start it all over again. He also was a good child herder, they never got away when he was around, LOL> Kids didn't like him much.

That's the key .. give them something to do. Otherwise they can be very destructive. I used to have a little Suzuki off road bike and Sarah would run beside me. We'd have races and she'd beat me until I got into 2nd gear! She understood commands in 3 languages and hand signals as well. She used to herd the kids in the neighborhood too and they didn't like it. I remember getting up one morning and discovered she had herded 4 palmetto bugs into a corner! She was also a frisbee champion 4 years in a row.

The herding instinct is so strong in these dogs it's uncanny. If you've ever see BC puppies "discover" the sheep you'll never forget it. The first time they are introduced, they run around playing then all of a sudden, like a light bulb turning on they "see" the sheep. They freeze, drop into the BC crouch and instantly know what to do. Here's a picture of her herding the lawnmower.

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X, that is the neatest thing I've seen in a long time. With the maiden name of Lamb I felt right at home. Will share it with the family.

Leslie

That certainly is some precision sheep herding! That very first one of the sheep walking is truly amazing.

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That was really cool! Just when I think I've seen everything on the internet, something else entirely unexpected shows up. And thankfully this one won't give me nightmares :D