Having recently had a numpty woman with a poodlex type and a sheepdog type, let her poodlex thing run in the sheep, the sooner its taken seriously the better. She had zero control over the dog, admitted so, which was why the dog was running loose in a field with no public access. Our horses in the next field were going nuts. She did apologise, but still had the brass neck to tell me that the dog liked sheep!
Our sheep are pets, three of them are 12 years old and enjoy a quiet life! We don't allow our own dogs in the field!