{"id":1421,"date":"2023-09-29T00:14:32","date_gmt":"2023-09-29T00:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/?p=1421"},"modified":"2023-09-30T01:57:44","modified_gmt":"2023-09-30T01:57:44","slug":"8-week-old-pups-meet-sheep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/29\/8-week-old-pups-meet-sheep\/","title":{"rendered":"8 Week-Old Pups Meet Sheep"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Two male pups from the older litter, Nel x Clwyd Bob, in the photos below are going to be sticking around. They remind me of the old comic strip, \u201cMike and Ike (They Look Alike)\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Apart from looking alike, these two pups engaged with sheep at just 8 weeks and 3 days old. Today, I put them outside the fence to ‘observe’ while I worked the young dogs and to just get used to sheep. They decided they wanted a piece of the action and made it through the fence onto the pitch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the pups simply ‘took charge<\/strong><\/em>‘. His first minutes on sheep are captured in the video below. A little guy who had just <\/em>turned 8 weeks old with absolutely NO FEAR (even when a ewe tries to head butt him) is working the sheep himself. The adult in the pasture, Jazz, is staying back –she may have been flummoxed. I put this pup and his brother in a portable kennel afterwards because they both kept finding their way back onto the sheep pitch while was working the adults.<\/p>\n\n\n\n