The Times reports today that a sheep farmer, Gareth Wyn Jones, received death threats when he posted a video showing how to skin a dead lamb to make a mother adopt an orphaned lamb. This is a traditional method. The video demonstrates how the skin of ewe’s dead newborn lamb is removed and placed over …
France reintroduced wolves into their country about 30 years ago after they had been hunted to extinction in the twentieth century. That resulted in shepherds using Pyrenean mountain dogs to protect their flocks. And, sadly, there are reports of Pyrenean mountain dogs attacking people which is undermining the process. It’s reported in The Times that …
Sheep-defending Pyrenean mountain dogs are attacking people Read More »
Enlightening, no? Sheep can be like dogs. No doubt this sheep was raised with dogs but it goes to show that they are sentient animals with a mind. But we see them so mercilessly treated as commercial assets much like nuts-and-bolts that have been mass produced at factories. As livestock they are often treated as …
If you think sheep are dumb, unthinking herd animals check out this video Read More »
For me, this is a scientific study which has resulted in a common-sense conclusion but it deserves to be stated. Scientists at the universities of Barcelona and Leipzig and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany came to the conclusion that the more independent and less herd-dependent an individual animal is the more …
Less herd-dependent individual animals are more intelligent and innovative Read More »
NEWS AND OPINION – PERTH, AUSTRALIA: This is another horror story about how humankind treats animals. Some people don’t care but I, for one, do. Massive livestock transport ships which I believe are owned by two companies: the Kuwaiti-owned Livestock Shipping Services and Rural Export and Trading WA (Retwa), based in Perth, ship vast quantities …
Yes, sheep can be trained. They are not dumb creatures which is how many people perceive them. This is probably due to years of television presenting them as automatons being chased around a field by a sheepdog. They are more intelligent than many people believe which allows them to be responsive to clicker training (positive …
As the Twitter post says, there is a whiff of Damien Hirst about this picture. This is a reference to the shark in formaldehyde artwork and other animals that the artist Damien Hirst created some years ago. Britain is currently going through a couple of storms. We’ve just had storm Dudley and now we are …
Sheep took cover at bus stop as storm Dudley threatened Britain Read More »
