Are sheep colour blind? Seriously are they? I imagine as country type I should Know stuff like that, I don't though, so I ponder and ask. So if anyone knows, let me know, even Google doesn't seem to know and Google knows like totally everything.
The reason for my question? It's OK don't worry it's not like I've become some crazed sheep stalker just wondered based on recent sheep activity. Picture the scene, me and scruffy dog out for our prosaic lunch time wander, approaching the top field and saw, oh joy electric fence, no sign of animals though so that's fine. So we continue our rather prosaic wander or rather I Do. It took a few minutes before I wondered where's the damn dog. A quick look over the shoulder showed me where she was, having a roll, in , oh yes you guessed it, sheep poo. What's a girl to do? Well I approached it in the highly sane way of reading the dog the riot act. "Seriously, do you have to do it, do you, rolling in sheep poo, ffs Lucy I mean, rolling in sheep poo, wtf". It went on for some time. It went on until I became aware that the dog, who was happily wagging her tail was looking past me. She was doing this because some bored working from home village bloke was approaching from behind. He was chortling, he presumably had heard my full sheep poo related rantings. Oh dear.
Decided to confine contact with village bloke to a vague grimace and plodded on, with a very happy scruff dog in tow, after all in her mind she smells damn fine. Trust me you only realise how pongy sheep poo is when your dog has rolled in it.
And what of the sheep? Ah well they had been sheltering behind the hedge at the top end of the field but emerged when they saw me and scruff bag and decided to follow us, yep all of them, sheep like following stuff, other sheep mainly bu tin this case scruff bag. Not sure if it was because she was exuding "aura de sheep poo" but it seemed they'd decided she was their spiritual sheep leader, even though she's ginger. Which is the reason for the are sheep colour blind question. Problem is now, every time we cross the field it's the same, followed by sheep, all of them. Will have to buy a Bo Peep hat at this rate.
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