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Did someone say sheep?

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By Donna Littlejohn on January 5, 2009 11:21 AM | | Comments (0) |

Here's some pretty exciting news (for me and my herding dogs, anyway): My Quaker friends of more than 20 years, the Angells, are getting sheep! Woo-hoo!

Unfortunately, they live all the way on the other side of the country, on Bentley Farm near the Hudson River in NY (we met at a Quaker conference in Kansas, of all places, in the 1980s when they were just "starting" their family -- they had only 3 of what would be 8 children at that time).
 
The family already has a fair amount of livestock and cattle on their farm. Now, in a project launched and supervised by Angell #7, daughter Rebecca, they plan to  sheep.jpgadd some sheep to the mix sometime this spring. 

Hmmm. Maybe there's a cross-country road trip in the future for Tess, Cowboy and me?






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Above, everyone pitches in at Bentley Farm on New Year's Day to build the new sheep enclosure .... A border collie's dream (and, yes, they do also have a border collie, "Bentley")


Of course, once she discovers sheep, Tess will never be happy playing fetch with a tennis ball again. But she does get some herding practice in with the small dogs on the other side of the fence at the dog park. She faithfully watches over her little "flock" (sometimes aided, if only marginally, by the much-too-easily-distracted Cowboy): 

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Below: All the Angell kids, nearly all grown up now, or fast on their way, posing on the farm's beloved John Deere for the family's 2008 Christmas photo: 





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Daily Breeze reporter Donna Littlejohn has shared her homes with a succession of wonderful, funny, and occasionally difficult canines -- Muffin, Fritz, Ellie, Mercy, Pilgrim and now Cowboy, an Australian shepherd-border collie, and Tess, a border collie. From strong-willed terriers to weirdly obsessed Australian shepherds, they've invaded her world with boundless energy, wet noses, muddy paws and soggy tennis balls. But they've really brought so much more than that -- like laughter and joy, some unexpected life lessons, and more than a few tears along the way.

E-mail Donna at donna.littlejohn@dailybreeze.com.

Josh Grossberg grew up with the usual array of animals: goldfish, dogs, hamsters, parakeets and turtles. He now owns the loudest dog in the South Bay(Video: Rocket the Dog) and is the least popular person on his block. He spends his free time in dog parks, pet shops and always has an extra plastic bag in his pocket just in case. He also has a cat.

E-mail Josh at josh.grossberg@dailybreeze.com.

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