Sheepdogs (is he still talking about that?)

[Neil Ward]

Elizabeth said:

<< A flock of lambs would consider a sheepdog its worst nightmare?  No, I
don't
think so!  With all due respect, Neil, my favorite little one panel cartoon
 depicts a couple of happily married lambs, in the midst of an entertainment
 at their house, longing for a sheepdog to organize the food and
 entertainment.  Sheepdogs protect the lambs from their predators. >>

Okay... I realise that you are the sheepdog supremo here and I really
shouldn't have touched that button, should I?  [Scrabbles on desk for
papers]...er...I guess I meant dogs (non sheep variety), such as my family's
former Jack Russell terrier, Kipps, who would have *worried* sheep, had he
got the chance.  Of course, *I* must worry the rest of you with my strange
behaviour, so the analogy continues... Could I be a *mad* sheepdog - that's
more than likely.

[off-stage noise of barrel being scraped]

I think you'd like my current family dog, Bramble, who is a Collie-Spaniel
crossbreed.  I say my family - he lives with my Mum and Dad.  He was found
abandoned on a farm under a bramble bush, with his four sisters, covered in
fleas and left for dead.  There was a picture in the local paper, and it was
the week after Kipps had died, so... they went along to the farm and claimed
him!

Neil
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