Suburban Shepherdess

Far more unusual than the Turkish shepherdess of the previous entry is the Suburban Shepherdess.  (Click to biggify)

My thanks to sender-inner Zinlizzie for making the sighting and for identifying the sheep breed as being Ovis aries frontlawnii.  It would have taken me a long time to track that one down as it is quite rare and does not yet appear in most of the sheep breed references.

 

This breed of sheep is most often seen in the US, which is where I believe it was first developed.  The setting is almost always suburbia, as shown here, as the breed does not fare well in more rural settings.

There have been occasional sightings in Canada and even in a few European settings, but those are quite unusual. 

Even more rare than a sighting of these sheep, is a sighting of them with their attendant shepherdess.  Well done, Zinlizzie.

Comments

[Maia]

*snort*

Ovis aries frontlawnii

too funny!

[cyndy]

oh my. what a waste of perfectly good fleece. It is fleece right? On second thought, it might be poly- something or other. oh my.

[catsmum]

goat tails are
occasionally down but yes, in general UP. Maybe sheepies are up sometimes?
New goat babies over at my place. Too cute. Short coats though so no spinning :[

[Twistedspinster]

Waitaminnit -- isn't the rule "Tail up goat, tail down sheep" ?? That means two of these are goats!!
Ruth

[Manise]

I'm rather surprised that Claudia has not commented on this unique breed- :-0

[jessie]

Thank you for the breed information and the cultural context. Always something to learn here. :-)

[Judith]

How well would they do at keeping the weeds in the yard under control? And how's their wool for spinning?

[danana]

Haha! Very cute! Another notable thing about this breed is that they can grow to be bigger than their shepherdess...!

[Sharon]

They are wonderfully tolerant of low water situations - a very clever step in sheep evolution.

[Lucia]

I was wondering how low-maintenance sheep could be... now I know. Of course I would still have to keep paying the local teenagers to mow my lawn.

[Cheryl]

They look about ready to be sheared.

[Susanna]

I'm a bit worried about them. Their pasture is all brown and grassless. And their shepherdess doesn't seem to be dressed for a long trek to better grazing.

[Gail R]

I can always count on you to come up with something unique and unusual! Thank you for this one and giving me a good chuckle at the end of a bad day.

[Carole]

Did you run out of postcards? ;-)

[Sonja]

What is even more interesting, is that these sheep often graze in pastures where there is no boundary. This means that these same pastures become prime grazing ground for the winter, lighted hoofed animal - reindeerius lightedupitus

[margene]

That's a breed even I could care for!