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Ataahua
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Aug 3, 1:26am
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Movie news: Graham MacTavish is taking on a Kiwi institution - A Dog's Show
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I remember watching this show as a kid. It sounds bonkers - watching dogs manage sheep through fences and into pens - but it was rivetting. I love the idea of a film based around it - and I can just see MacTavish as a grumpy farmer. 
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/...HYZBQHFRVEYV34HTPUE/
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Lissuin
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Aug 3, 10:50am
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It's amazing to watch well-trained, enthusiastic dogs managing the sheep. And they're filming around Wellington?! With MacTavish?!
Maybe I'll come out of retirement and try out for this, an extra enthusiastic character-faced spectator at the sheepdog trials in rural Aotearoa New Zealand! Slice of Heaven!
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grammaboodawg
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Aug 3, 1:43pm
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This reminds me of the old movie "Babe" about a sheep-herding pig ;) That had a gruff farmer, too.
In the past, I've had Border Collies used as brilliant herders of livestock (sheep, cattle, etc.) At one time when my Border Collie Gina was here, I also had 6 cats all indoors. She knew each cat by name ("Go find Punkin. Go find Booger, etc.). On occasion, she would try to herd cats. Seriously! It was hilarious to watch!
I can't wait to see this movie! I hope they produce it on international dvd :D
We have been there and back again.
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Ethel Duath
Gondolin
Aug 5, 10:34pm
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tried to herd 5 Black Labradors. They were not so much unimpressed as utterly unaware.
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Lissuin
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Aug 5, 11:38pm
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I can visualize them lying on the grass, soooo very unimpressed, gazing languidly at the determined collie. Sheep have to go through a training process, too. 
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Ataahua
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Aug 6, 5:12am
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Celebrimbor: "Pretty rings..."
Dwarves: "Pretty rings..."
Men: "Pretty rings..."
Sauron: "Mine's better."
"Ah, how ironic, the addictive qualities of Sauron’s master weapon led to its own destruction. Which just goes to show, kids - if you want two small and noble souls to succeed on a mission of dire importance... send an evil-minded beggar with them too." - Gandalf's Diaries, final par, by Ufthak.
Fantasy novel - The Arcanist's Tattoo
My LOTR fan-fiction
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Ethel Duath
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Aug 6, 6:46pm
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the dogs had just wandered in a group out of the barn at a farm where they also boarded dogs and had a bunch of their own. And Cami was just running in circles around them, but they didn't seem to be at all aware of it.
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CMackintosh
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4:03am
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when I was still a church-goer attending my parents' church, I noticed a border collie wander in towards a group of parishioners, and move in behind them, side to side, eyes intent, and I guessed the dog was a retired sheep dog, missing work, and looking for it. I waved at him/her and said, in a quiet, no-nonsense voice, "Home", and it gave me a bewildered look then turned and wandered off.
Yes, some sheep dogs do take retirement hard, and long for the "old days" when the sheep were not considerably taler than them, didn't walk on two feet but moved on all fours, and actually obeyed a steely glare. 
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