Spelling With Sheep

• Tim
  March 22nd, 2008 at 5:56 pm

  riiiggghtttt…

• Skipweasel
  March 22nd, 2008 at 6:24 pm

  Me, I’d just spread their favourite food in the right pattern and let the sheep sort themselves out.

• AndyO
  March 22nd, 2008 at 8:22 pm

  Those must be some dogs…what with being able to command the sheep so deftly from some distant, off-camera location.

• MrPumpernickel
  March 22nd, 2008 at 9:08 pm

  Better example with much clearer overtone sounds: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DY1pcEtHI_w

  Though not Amazing Grace.

• MrPumpernickel
  March 22nd, 2008 at 9:11 pm

  Crap, sorry about that, commented wrong neatorama entry, doofus is me.

• chris
  March 23rd, 2008 at 6:09 am

  I’m pretty sure I’ve seen this image before and the farmer had spread food in a way that spelled out “Spring.”

  Even if I hadn’t seen this image before, as someone who’s actually herded sheep with my collies, I see a some things that make this photo inconsistent with the caption. The biggest is that there are no sheepdogs. This is a darn complex series of shapes and to get anything close to it would require a lot of dogs and a bunch of handlers. It’s hard enough to get sheep to stay in one roundish bunch let alone forming a series of letters. Heck to form the “P” would require a dog in the middle of the loop to keep it open. Finally, when herding dogs are holding sheep to a definite spot, the sheep are alert and looking at the sheepdog. The sheep in the photo are relaxed not focused on anything but something on the ground at their feet.

• Miss Cellania
  March 23rd, 2008 at 6:12 am

  It would have been funnier if it were misspelled!

• Lasse
  March 23rd, 2008 at 6:33 am

  This reminds me of North Korea.

• ted
  March 23rd, 2008 at 8:08 am

  Would be easier to shop it.

• absurdist
  March 24th, 2008 at 4:20 am

  That’s good, pig.

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