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Sheep or sheepdog?
Today was Pepper's first real face-to-face meeting with livestock (except
horses). My fiance's parents live out in the country, and their neighbors have a farm with sheep, llamas, and miniature donkeys living all together in a pasture. I walked Pepper just outside the fence, and the animals were fascinated. Especially the llamas, which craned their necks over the fence for a closer look. Pepper ran up to them, wagging her tail wildly, eager to touch noses through the fence. She brought me a stick to throw, and when I obliged the llamas and one donkey ran right along the fence to see what was going on (the sheep were a little more cautious). When Pepper noticed she was being watched, she reacted the same way she would have if a large dog was eyeing her: she looked at them, looked away from the stick, and trotted away with her tail held high - "I didn't really want that old stick anyway". She's five and a half months old - is it normal for her to treat sheep and llamas as peers instead of prey? Pepper is extremely friendly, and it actually took a bit of doing to keep her from "playing" with horses and instead leave a respectful distance. She actually play bowed at my sister's Pinto the first time they met g. Will she be more "predatory" if she encounters sheep in a group in open pasture? Sheep would definately be less threatening than the llamas - they were skittish and flocked, unlike the independant llamas. Jana |
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