That story has to be false. On the first account, a true shepherd would not
do harm to anyone in his flock!! I also notice I said anyone, not an
animal. I believe a real shepherd treats his flock as part of his family.
Go ahead and tell me that I hang around my sheep too much! I have worked
with sheep and I have worked in an environment where I had to work closely
with people. I prefer sheep!!
Cecil in OKla
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Smith" <mwsmotorspo...@gmail.com>
To: <blackbelly@lists.blackbellysheep.info>
Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2010 10:46 PM
Subject: Re: [Blackbelly] Shepherds tactics
plus, how would it eat, defecate, urinate? ....or heal with a
straight leg, since a lamb with a splint can run like a bullet, so it
would "have" to be carried at all times, if the leg was not splinted
and the shepherd carried it pretty much always...
-Michael, Perino Ranch Blackbellies
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 7:54 PM, The Wintermutes
<winterm...@earthlink.net> wrote:
I believe this "shepherd tactic" is fiction. I have had several lambs with
a broken leg. First those little three leggers can be very difficult to
catch. Second, not all of them had happy endings with healed legs. And
third, many of those lambs had no fondness of the shepherd that
continually
doctored their painful injury.
Mark Wintermute
In a discussion this morning some one told me they had heard
that a tactic used by shepherds with lambs that continuously ran off was
to
break a leg and carry the lamb so the lamb could not/would not run away
for
the period of time the leg was healing. During the healing time the
shepherd
would carry the lamb on his shoulders thus creating in the lamb a
dependence/fondness on the shepherd.
Let me be clear, I am not condoning this in the least simply interested
to
know if any one has ever heard of this tactic being used by any one
tending
sheep.
TIA,
Dave
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