Strange sheep situation. Real sheep.

OliveOilMom · Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2011 7:24 pm Post subject:

OK, my neighbors across the road have sheep, among other animals of that type. It was very interesting when I first moved here, but I'm used to seeing in their huge field, different types of animals. Cows sometimes. Donkeys sometimes. Ponys sometimes. Sheep sometimes. Goats sometimes. Sometimes they get loose and people who live around here will catch them and bring them back to their owners. They are docile. It's fun.

But I digress.

It was just no longer interesting to look at them when I drove by. Nor when I walked by. I don't even bother to pet the ones with their heads sticking over or through the fence anymore. I've lost interest.

Until.............

I looked over there today and there were the sheep. Most of them were standing around doing sheep things. Like standing around. Over in the back of the field, by where they grow the Christmas trees, there was a hoop. It was several feet off the ground with a box or something leading up to it. There were two or three sheep down there randomly jumping through this hoop.

I had no idea that could happen. It seemed to be of their own volition because nobody else was around. Other sheep were away from them, standing. I have no idea why this was going on. I stopped and leaned over the fence and looked. I yelled at the sheep. I yelled "Hey! Sheep! SHEEP!" and I don't know why I did that because I don't know what I expected, but in a situation like that, I wing it. They didn't do anything except one group kept standing there while the other group jumped. They weren't going in a kind of order or line or anything. They were just taking turns or something it seemed.

I had to give this a lot of thought. Now, either this is some kind of sheep farming method I am not familiar with, and that is probably the case because I am not familiar with any kind of any farming methods at all. If it is not a regular sheep farming method, then these are the only things I can figure out.

1. They are training circus animals
2. These are those insomnia sheep that they are training for people to buy who can't sleep so they can count them.
3. The sheep are making some kind of statement on society where one group stands around, like, well, sheep, and the other sheep jump through hoops.

WTH were these sheep doing????
Will I see them eventually jumping through flaming hoops?
Will there ever be trampolines involved in this?
Why have the pony's there never done it?
Should I have the company that made the energy drink I had had earlier analyze their products in case I was dosed?
Should I just go check myself in somewhere at a psych hospital?

Frances