Comments on: Sheep at last! On Linda Goes Back to School – Day Two p.m.

By: Christine Miller

Christine Miller — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 09:48:19 +0000

What fun Linda! Getting out into the fresh air and being in nature, so many benefits.

I hadn’t come across leadership lessons from sheep before, and I have a delightful picture in my mind of you and the group tackling the herding. At least as a non-meat eater you were not tempted to yell ‘baaaaabecue’ at them to scare them into compliance…

I did a ‘Leadership Lessons from horses’ (more or less Horse Whispering) training a few years ago, which remains one of the most inspiring and powerful experiences I have had about authentic leadership and the subtle messages we give off to animals (human and otherwise) which influence their behaviour :-).

By: Suzanne @WorkoutNirvana

Suzanne @WorkoutNirvana — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 02:11:10 +0000

Ok, yum? That’s an awesome recipe. We saw some sheep at a historic farm recently and their “baaaas” were of every variety – low, high, and in between. I do believe they were working as a team…

By: Linda Mattacks

Linda Mattacks — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 19:07:54 +0000

Hi Suze!
Somehow I’d missed that post of yours earlier this year on BOTB – to be honest I’m with you, you don’t normally go sussing out an animal’s er, intimate parts when it’s trespassing and nicking your animals’ nosh!

Yolanda – I’d not been that close to sheep before and really hadn’t contemplated what their thoughts might be… to me pigs seem to have more going for them in the personality stakes…

By: Yolanda

Yolanda — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 17:51:28 +0000

I love it, who’d have thunk sheep could be team building teachers!

By: Suzan St Maur

Suzan St Maur — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 17:19:00 +0000

You were very lucky those sheep had been handpicked for their social skills – they aren’t always such woolly pushovers. I would respectfully refer you to this particular article on BirdsOnTheBlog, for an expansion on that point…. :-))

http://www.birdsontheblog.co.uk/confessions-of-a-horse-lover-are-ewe-raving-mad/

By: Linda Mattacks

Linda Mattacks — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 15:48:07 +0000

Hi Sarah –

You’re right – I think it would have stood out ever so slightly 😉
The blue one was a dye job from another of Chris’ gigs – the colour is harmless – it’s the same dye they use for branding.

By: Linda Mattacks

Linda Mattacks — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 15:45:41 +0000

Thanks for joining in the fun, Mary
It was interesting to see how those sheep acted as a group and watched us inept human beings fan out whilst we were trying to ‘guide’ them into the pen – they were definitely on the look out for a gap – and, once spotted they’d have been straight though it.
They were no way near as meek as ‘townies’ are led to believe – and heaven knows what Chris’ ornery ones are like!

By: Sarah Arrow

Sarah Arrow — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 15:42:47 +0000

I didn’t see that blue one on the field anywhere!

By: Mary C. Weaver, CSCS

Mary C. Weaver, CSCS — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 15:32:20 +0000

Well, I’ve never learned from a sheep. But dogs have definitely formed a huge part in my education.