Dog worried by sheep

[TheOldTrout]

Sheep terrorise my animals. Not only do they persecute my mare but yesterday, when Mr Trout was walking Blue (on the lead, of course) through a field with sheep in, the lambs scared Blue so much Mr T had to pick him up and carry him past them!

 

[Clodagh]

. I was walking my five through a field yesterday and a lone sheep was in there. It came over and gave the dogs a good sniffing. They all sniffed it back, except Ffee, who was completely terrified. I wanted to take a photo but holding 5 leads meant it wasn’t going to happen as we had instant Cat’s Cradle. We moved on and I saw it was a he, I think a Teeswater or similar string mop breed. He was gorgeous.
Ffee keeps seeing signs about sheep worrying and wants to know who to report it to.

 

[ponyparty]

My dog and I got followed by some very inquisitive sheep last spring. It was like grandma’s footsteps… we’d take a few steps forward, they’d follow, getting slightly closer. We stopped, they stopped. My dog looked SO worried, he was straining on the lead to get away, and kept looking back at them with a perturbed look on his face

 

[Carlosmum]

We turn out dogs into the orchard where there are a few bottle fed lambs and their Mums. The dogs are very wary and stay well clear. One particular ewe will follow them back to the gate stamping her foot.

 

[Cinnamontoast]

Walking through a field with sheep, both dogs on the lead, the whole flock followed us, so we were walking towards the gate and kept looking back, the sheep kept advancing. It was quite intimidating, a wall of sheep just coming at us.

 

[blackcob]

We get followed by matchy matchy sheeps

 

[Clodagh]

We get followed by matchy matchy sheeps

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Hey! Bruvver from another muvver!

 

[Sparky Lily]

Quite a few years ago we had a holiday in the Lake District with our then dog, a spaniel x terrier about a year old at the time. She was always on a lead for walks through sheep fields, and we kept to the paths. However, Herdwick sheep do not see why they should move off the path to allow walkers and their dogs free passage, and would stand their ground, stamping fiercely, even when we made a wide detour round them. Poor girl was terrified, and would promptly hide behind our legs whenever she saw sheep again for the rest of her long life.

 

[meesha]

My border collie is blooming terrified by sheep, if I walk through a field with them in she can't even look at them and just wants to get away from them.... I'm with her, they have weird faces !!