Mom thinks we creature are act weird . For instance , Ursula , the fatty , black ewe , is in passionate sexual love with me . Yes , really ! She stroll past 10 grumbling rams to purr and bat her eyes at me . ( That ’s where the phrase “ do sheep eyes ” come from . ) That proves I ’m a really studly guy , do n’t you opine ? But Mom wo n’t let me come out to diddle . That ’s because long horse can get ewes meaning , but the babies do n’t live long enough to get contain . We do n’t want that to happen here .
And yesterday , Salem decided he ’s a bragging , bad , blubbering buck . He ’s a 6 - year - old wether and he ’s never done that before . He park himself by the read/write memory penitentiary and romance the rams . That madeOthello , theScottish Blackface , really insane . Othello growled and pawed and insulted Salem until they arrest in a combat . WHAM , their heads smashed the fencing ! Mom bolted out of the planetary house , yelling , because Othello ’s bashing ’s already damaged the fence , and then she led Salem forth .
Arthur , the ram lamb , is making this year ’s lambies , but he ’s acting reasonably oddly , too . When Mom puts a girl in his playpen , instead of breeding her , first he bashes her around a clump with his head . That makes Mom mad , so she puts Ursula in with them for for a while ( but not while Ursula is in heat because Ursula is taking a break this year ) . Ursula is a warrior sheep ! She knocks Arthur around until he comport .
But we are n’t the only sheep and goats acting eldritch ! When Mom told her friends at theHobby Farm SheepYahoo mathematical group how strange we ’ve been acting , a lady who raisesFinnsheepposted this reply : “ My Aries lamb has been in with his Ewe since Thanksgiving Day , and from what I can say , he has had no interest in them other than to play with them or attempt to harbor them . He hops and skips about , leaping into the air when the Ewe approach him , wagging their tails . Now a Mallard duck has take up hall in the creek that runs through the pasture and my ram lamb is completely ‘ take ’ by him . So , my wether are chasing the Ewe , the ewe are chasing the ram lamb and the ram lamb only has eyes for duck , who because he is the only normal one in the whole bunch really is NOT partake the love ! He is only interested in the girl Mallard and even this should not be happening at this fourth dimension of the twelvemonth ; it ’s too early to draw close . I am good confused ! I hope this is n’t some kind of a signaling for thing to come in 2012 . I do n’t know if I can take it ! ”
We ’re confused , too . Are your animate being acting unearthly ? We do n’t eff what ’s making us crazy . Do you ?
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