Animals Buzz It's all the latest in Japan. These goslings just wanna play with Dasher the lamb. Watch out for the bonus camel!
Culture Buzz Why train a sheep dog when you’ve got a fluffy bunny doing the work?
Wait for it. I don't care how old this picture is, it makes me smile every time.
How can you say “no” to that face? (via flyingscotsman.tumblr.com)
She learned a valuable lesson: do unto others, as you would have others do unto you. Even if the other is a sheep.
Culture Buzz Heartwarming. Pictures like this give me HOPE. (via burlingtonfreepress.com)
Culture Buzz Children wrangling sheep is a pastime that happens at rodeos and cowboy parties you don't hear about. This is what happens when the sheep fight back.
This picture is from a ‘mutton busting’ event in Wyoming. 'Mutton busting.' (via blogs.wsj.com)
Culture Buzz New Zealanders are mourning the loss of the country's most famous sheep. The shaggy icon named Shrek was renowned for avoiding being shorn for years. Shrek captured the public's imagination in 2004 after he evaded the annual shearing roundups for seven years by hiding in caves on his farm on the South Island. You will be missed you furry little terror…
Exactly how much napalm do I need to destroy these before they invade my nightmares? I don't know what's going on here, but I don't like it.
Interspecies love at its finest. Who knew sheep were so damn bouncy?
Like most stories involving giant cauliflower sheep, this one is bittersweet. Only in Wales.
Turkish thieves steal a sheep from a moving livestock truck. It's like a Turkish “Fast and the Furious”. With sheep. [Ed. note: Fake! But anyone who goes to this much trouble to fake a sheep-stealing chase scene deserves some recognition.]
Whether they are trying to play or trying to kill you, sheep just want to have fun.
Movie Buzz When Peter Jackson's production crew left Matamata, New Zealand, they left 17 hobbit holes on the private farm that was used as a stand-in for the Shire. Since then, the farm's sheep have moved in on this hobbit ghost town.
Didn't really think about the exit strategy there, huh? (Via Atlas Obscura.)
Tech Buzz Help the sheep get to their homes! You will need to make their their unique individual ovine abilities work in concert to achieve this laudable goal. (Via.)
The ultimate baa-ckseat driver. (Sorry, so stoopid.) [Disclaimer: this is my site, and I don't mean to be a shameless self-promoter, I just think the picture is amazing.]
Culture Buzz Somewhere between Iceland and the UK, sheep are being herded on a zip line. Insomniacs, rejoice: you can literally count sheep now.
Mutton Busting is like the rodeo, except instead of adults riding livestock, it's the children of negligent parents riding sheep until they fall and get trampled. Additionally, the sport sheds light on the timeless ethical dilemma that asks what's more pressing: the welfare of children or the welfare of sheep? Take your sides!
A man with a sheep's body, wearing space boots…in space. Yes…yes I would buy a house from this man/space sheep.
Why are you so happy? I envy your happiness and It's is hard to hate you, but I manage.
Replace “sheep” with “human” and you have a pretty good picture of what life will be like after our robot overlords seize power. Also of note: this robot is really bad at shearing sheep.
A group of sheepherders attach lights to their flock after training the dogs to arrange the sheep in fun ways. So THIS is what sheepherders do for fun.
Samsung corals sheep in the name of technology. Clearly parts are staged. But if that's what it takes to build Sheep Pong or a Mona Lisa of living wool, I'm OK with it.