semi-hiatus

Time to FROLIC!

Videos i like so much i painted them

translation: “My sheep! [bah! bah!] You are my life. [bah! bah!] Walk behind me…[bah! bah!] Sing (after me).”

This is too adorable

eeee my other favorite goat video

A man attending to his lambs in Inner Mongolia

English added by me :)

Border-Leicester Sheep ♡

Anatolian shepherd dog puppy in training

who else is in the “didn’t realize sheep have long tails until i was like 20″ club

Undocked unrestrained

The reason most farmers dock (cut off) the tails is to prevent fly strike, an often lethal infection of fly larvae in the rear of the sheep. Without a (VERY FLUFFY) tail for fecal matter to accumulate on, fly strike is almost completely eliminated!

there is a wide variety of similar treatments for farm animals that are entirely for the animals well being pigs get their tail curled and tusks removed as babies so they dont accidentally nip each other while playing or stab each other just walking around- even a small tail nip might be fatal once the other pigs react to the scent of blood goats/cows often have their horns removed as babies as well both for obvious reasons to prevent stabbings but also to prevent them from growing in weird that can cause pain and infection for the animal chickens and other poultry, especially pet ones or hobby farms, might have their flight feathers clipped to prevent them from flying over fences, where their life expectancy is nill outside the farm/owners enclosure

Very good and valid points but please tell me what you mean by “might be fatal once the other pigs react to the scent of blood” before I lose my marbles

Pigs are omnivores and cannibals. Fun fact if you ever have need to dispose of a body, tossing it in a pigpen will get rid of it real fast.

There’s a reason why everyone went into a full blown panic when Dorothy fell into the pigpen in the Wizard of Oz. Pigs are vicious.

i remember there was a Criminal Minds Episode where the bodies were disposed of by being given to pigs to eat.

it gave me nightmares.

humans can be awful, and a lot of companies that mass-produce animal-based products are disgusting, but what people like to forget is that nature is not purely happiness and peace and rainbows, either. just cuz people do it doesn’t mean it’s bad. just cuz nature does it doesn’t mean it’s good. these matters are not black and white.

My mom grew up on a farm and my grandmother told her and my uncle to stay away from the pig pens because a family friend’s kids were throwing rocks at the pigs and making them angry for fun…. and then the 3 year old toddler fell into the pen.

Also when I was in Vancouver in 2007 or 2008 there was a big news story about a serial killer who had just been caught who…. happened to own a pig farm… if you get my gist

Reblogging this because I remembered that Entelodon (a prehistoric wild pig) existed.

I have pigs and already knew this but I didn’t know about entelodon

gawd, I fucking love sheep peeling videos.

Thoughts contemporary folks share with counterparts of centuries past.

Oh to be a sheep peeled by a hot butch

"he's way too big for me so I let my wife handle him" oh my god this is so delightful

This is what I’m here for

No matter the species……. mama is Comfy

this is exactly the sort of information we the public needed to know 🥺

Puppy in cozy, toasty warm, comfort.  Taken into the flock. 

worth pointing out that appears to be a great pyrenees dog AKA a livestock guardian dog. :)

they’re learning to cohabitate with sheep who they will then grow up to protect!

Photo is by Cat Urbigkit. It’s from her ranch in Wyoming; she says the dogs are Akbash. Here are some more of her photos of working livestock guardian dogs.

Puppy in cozy, toasty warm, comfort.  Taken into the flock. 

worth pointing out that appears to be a great pyrenees dog AKA a livestock guardian dog. :)

they’re learning to cohabitate with sheep who they will then grow up to protect!

Photo is by Cat Urbigkit. It’s from her ranch in Wyoming; she says the dogs are Akbash. Here are some more of her photos of working livestock guardian dogs.

translation: “My sheep! [bah! bah!] You are my life. [bah! bah!] Walk behind me…[bah! bah!] Sing (after me).”

When I try to save a friend

The OP’s blog has a later post saying the sheep was okay, so it’s OK to laugh.

was feeling sad today in quarantine so I decided to go through my fave posts and this video just brightens my LIFE

“Sheep discovers how to use a trampoline”

(via)

Tim Skellett@Gurdur:

An aerial view of a sheepdog as it demonstrates fluid mechanics, and it also shows a sheep is a particle, while a flock is a wave.

A Scottish farmer at Auchingarrich Wildlife Centre fools tourists into believing that her flock produce tartan wool with the help of some harmless sheep marking spray. The visiting Americans were told that the animals were being raised on a diet of Irn Bru and shortbread.

@apxlllo

I’m cackling this is so fucking funny

I can’t

OMFG

This breed of sheep is the Fat Tailed Han. I’ve never seen them MOVE though

my name is sheep and when it’s day and all the flock comes out to play i strut my stuff with tons of sass and like a boss i shake my ass