{"id":280866,"date":"2025-06-08T05:45:23","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T05:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/animal\/talking-to-sheep-my-shetland\/"},"modified":"2025-06-08T05:45:23","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T05:45:23","slug":"talking-to-sheep-my-shetland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=280866","title":{"rendered":"Talking to Sheep | My Shetland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-78263\">\n\t\t\t\t<!-- .entry-header --><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>A lovely morning and after nice dog-walk, I cleaned out the ducks\u2019 swimming pool and went to sit in the field as it takes forever to fill up again.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-78277\" src=\"https:\/\/myshetland.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_9305.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\"\/><\/p>\n<p>I sat next to \u2018Ster as I thought he would appreciate some company and a chat.\u00a0 He\u2019s still not 100%.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-78270\" src=\"https:\/\/myshetland.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_9323.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\"\/><\/p>\n<p>It didn\u2019t take long before Lambie thought I could be his best friend.\u00a0 It\u2019s that time of year when he hates all his wool and wants to be scratched.\u00a0 He is too hot.<\/p>\n<p>Lambie never talks to me.\u00a0 I am his Muzzah after all, and, because no one in the family ever believes me when I say Lambie was nice to me (ie acknowledged my existence), I took photos as evidence.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-78275\" src=\"https:\/\/myshetland.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_9311.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Then Maggie wanted some attention.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-78276\" src=\"https:\/\/myshetland.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_9307.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Gussie came up for a bit I threw him out of my \u201cFriendship Circle\u201d when he snuck behind me and started to eat my hair!\u00a0 Ouch!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-78274\" src=\"https:\/\/myshetland.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_9312.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\"\/><\/p>\n<p>But continued to Maggie stand close by smiling a lot.\u00a0 She is wee jewel.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-78272\" src=\"https:\/\/myshetland.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_9318.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Then \u2018Bert was suddenly standing next to me.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t hear him arrive.\u00a0 He was just there.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-78271\" src=\"https:\/\/myshetland.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_9320.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\"\/><\/p>\n<p>And promptly sat on my legs so I was now stuck while the water was filling up the duckies\u2019 swimming pool.\u00a0 I was going nowhere according to \u2018Bert.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-78269\" src=\"https:\/\/myshetland.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_9328.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\"\/><\/p>\n<p>It was lovely to have so many sheep. I think there were 5 in total just hanging out with me, or eating my hair (that habit has to stop!)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-78268\" src=\"https:\/\/myshetland.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_9331.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-block sd-like jetpack-likes-widget-wrapper jetpack-likes-widget-unloaded\" id=\"like-post-wrapper-47143706-78263-68452373bf519\" data-src=\"https:\/\/widgets.wp.com\/likes\/#blog_id=47143706&amp;post_id=78263&amp;origin=myshetland.co.uk&amp;obj_id=47143706-78263-68452373bf519\" data-name=\"like-post-frame-47143706-78263-68452373bf519\" data-title=\"Like or Reblog\">\n<h3 class=\"sd-title\">Like this:<\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"button\"><span>Like<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"loading\">Loading&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sd-text-color\"\/><a class=\"sd-link-color\"\/><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content --><\/p>\n<footer class=\"entry-meta\">\n\t\t\tThis entry was posted in <a href=\"https:\/\/myshetland.co.uk\/category\/myshetland\/\" rel=\"category tag\">MyShetland<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/myshetland.co.uk\/talking-to-sheep\/\" title=\"5:30 pm\" rel=\"bookmark\"><time class=\"entry-date\" datetime=\"2025-06-07T17:30:11+01:00\">June 7, 2025<\/time><\/a><span class=\"by-author\"> by <span class=\"author vcard\"><a class=\"url fn n\" href=\"https:\/\/myshetland.co.uk\/author\/francestaylor\/\" title=\"View all posts by Frances\" rel=\"author\">Frances<\/a><\/span><\/span>.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/footer>\n<p><!-- .entry-meta -->\n\t<\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&amp;appId=249643311490&version=v2.3\"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lovely morning and after nice dog-walk, I cleaned out the ducks\u2019 swimming pool and went to sit in the field as it takes forever to fill up again. 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