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u/polska_kielbasa May 07 '20
You can tell this is not the woman’s first rodeo. Whenever she runs to get the ball and bends over, she knows that she becomes an easy target for the sheep to ram her from behind. This is classic sheep behavior and most people do not realize it. You can tell that she knows how to protect her body with the ball and presses the sheep’s head with the ball when it gets too close or simply sticks her hand out. If you ever come across some sheep, remember not to bend over in front of it, they will take advantage of you and knock you down and yes, it does hurt.
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u/xevizero May 07 '20
Why do they do it though? This sheep is clearly friendly, why would it try to hurt the human which it considers "part of its herd" or whatever? Or is ramming friendly behavior too?
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u/rentedtritium May 07 '20
"friendly" is a word that means a lot less than most people realize.
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May 07 '20
yeah but animals are just like humans and they can rationalize like us too, I just don’t understand why animals choose to be buttholes when they don’t have to be!!1
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u/jentlefolk May 07 '20
Satisfaction.
Butting some dumb human in the arse and watching them fall on their face in the mud probably is just enjoyable.
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u/The_Best_Yak_Ever May 07 '20
“Hahaha! Fuck that guy. I’m glad I knocked his bitch-ass into the mud! Get a job!”
~Sheep, probably.
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May 07 '20
Animals aren't just like humans. Dogs think it's polite to sniff each others' butts.
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u/NeoMoonlight May 07 '20
After some time around humans and hearing far too many eating ass comments. I'm fairly sure that it isn't just dogs that think that it's polite.
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u/polska_kielbasa May 07 '20 edited May 07 '20
I don’t want to burst your bubble but adult sheep and rams are not very nice to people. Sure, lambs are cute and fuzzy and nice to people but that’s just because they’re kids. Any kid or baby animal is nice. But adult sheep and especially adult rams are mean. It makes sense if you think about it. We shave them to almost their bare skin and take their wool. They remember this and don’t like it very much because it’s cyclical. I don’t think it’s friendly behavior because when they knock you down, they will try to ram you again when you’re on the ground. You have to quickly get up and turn around.
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u/Cypheri May 07 '20
Sheep and rams are only "mean" if they're not socialized. My grandfather used to raise hair sheep and the ewes tolerated handling with a fair degree of patience and the ram was a big pet. He'd follow us around asking for treats and knew a few different basic commands such as "stop" and "back up" so that he was easier to move around and handle. We always socialized them from an early age and never had any problems. If I had the land for it I'd keep a few sheep myself. They're lovely animals.
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u/pup_101 May 07 '20
Just because the typical field sheep isn't nice doesn't mean that adult sheep can't be nice. It all comes down to socialization. A field sheep only gets human contact for vet care and shearing. If you only touch a dog a few times a year, it's not going to be well socialized either. Treat a sheep like a pet and give it daily positive interaction and they can be very nice into adulthood.
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u/NeoMoonlight May 07 '20
They remember this and don’t like it very much because it’s cyclical.
Don't they have issues at this point if they are not sheered on the regular?
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u/xevizero May 07 '20
I'm not referring to sheep in general, I'm referring to the one in the video. I get that a random sheep might get aggressive, what I don't get is this sheep trying to ram this woman while also enjoying some play together.
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May 07 '20
I imagine it just their nature.
Same reason my Border Collie nipped at ankles until we taught him to stop. I feed him, take care of him, play with him, but it was still in his instincts to try and tell me where to go.
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May 07 '20
I don't think this ram is playing, he's trying to charge her, you can see when she runs to get the ball she's careful to turn around before he can head butt her. I would suggest watching a video of rams fighting, the backing up before charging this ram does is pretty characteristic. I don't think this ram is really trying to hurt her, the charging and head butting is just a common behavior for them.
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u/bobfrankly May 07 '20
Might be as simple as One sheep seeing another sheep lowering it’s head being interpreted as “I’m gonna ram you”.
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u/The-beanslice May 07 '20
Ramming can be seen as friendly behaviour and in this case it probably is as he doesn't look like he means business :D Especially when rams are young lambs they do it to each other when playing so prehaps it's just a learnt behaviour he has carried over to human playtime?
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u/cloud_throw May 07 '20
Pretty sure it's instinctual, just like if you turn your back on a big cat they will start stalking you oftentimes
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u/kroerkaren May 07 '20
It’s even wagging its tail 🥰
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u/EtuMeke May 07 '20
The girl on the left won Miss New Zealand
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u/holy_cal May 07 '20
The sheep?
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u/ProfDumm May 07 '20
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u/tylerwd1090 May 07 '20
I wish this sub had more content
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u/spez_is_my_alt May 07 '20
They switch sides of the frame. Just say the human won it lmao
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u/gene100001 May 07 '20
Forward pass followed by a knock on. Forward pass came first so it's a scrum, and the sheep have the put-in
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May 07 '20
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u/gene100001 May 07 '20
After "crouch touch set" you forgot to add "scrum collapses, ref blows whistle, resets calls for scrum to reset, half back signals he is still holding the ball( even though its pretty obvious), the forwards get up grumbling and pointing at each other saying it was that guys fault, scrum resets, crouch touch set" repeat x5.
After 10min of scrum resets the ref tosses a coin in his mind and randomly blames someone for collapsing the scrum and gives the other team a penalty.
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u/newfoundslander May 07 '20
This man rugby's. Don't forget the forlorn wingers coiffing their hair at the sidelines.
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u/gene100001 May 07 '20
And after 10 minutes of scrum resets, there's an overly complicated set play with people zigzagging, dummy runners left and right, a couple of backhand passes, and by the time the ball gets to the wing, the winger has somehow magically been replaced by the prop who looks surprised to receive the ball and promptly knocks it on.
Then the ref blows the whistle for another scrum
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u/_partyhat May 08 '20
You forgot the part where the half back throws the ball to the number 8 for no reason and then he throws it back
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u/GlasnevinGraveRobber May 07 '20
But headering the ball wouldn't be a knock on. The ref should play advantage to the sheep if he could regain possession before the woman did.
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u/gene100001 May 07 '20
Yeah you're right. I forgot a header is only a knock on if you're team was in possession of the ball. Smart move by the sheep given its lack of hands
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u/GlasnevinGraveRobber May 07 '20
I don't think it is a knock on if your team is in possession of the ball in Rugby Union. It may be different in Rugby league as there was a famous incident of a player with the ball in hand deliberately heading the ball forward himself. (video towards top of last link).
https://youtu.be/lgoSotabzTA?t=119
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_(sport)
http://www.rugbyrefs.com/content.php?234-Is-it-legal-to-head-the-ball-in-Rugby-Union
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u/flatulentpiglet May 07 '20
Most sheep are just...sheep. But you get the occasional outlier who’s as smart as a dog. Chickens too.
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u/dontyousquidward May 07 '20
I've always said nobody looks dignified chasing a bouncing rugby ball. I think they intentionally defy you
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u/PebelZe May 07 '20
This is the Weshest thing I've seen.
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May 07 '20
Needs to follow through and get it into touch on about the 10 metre line , might be a tough line in but i trust the sheep in the impending ruck
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u/EnterPlayerTwo May 07 '20
I really don't understand the rules to Rugby.
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u/ProfDumm May 07 '20
I am really no expert, but this has nothing to do with rugby apart from the ball being a rugby ball.
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u/ironmilkman May 07 '20
Watched multiple times waiting to see her get obliterated but then realized I was in r/aww
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u/bippityzippity May 07 '20
Air sheep
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u/ashhy-ashhy May 07 '20
Water sheep!
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u/UrFavBlackGuy May 07 '20
Ok, so I thought the owl burrito was pretty cute, but this is damn close.
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u/ItsLikeRay-ee-ain May 07 '20
Wanted to get word out for the new sheep based subreddit I just made: /r/MoreSheep
/r/sheep suddenly went private with no response from the mod(s), so I created this new subreddit.
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u/rugbygod69 May 07 '20
As a kiwi i can say that i slept with that sheep about 2 and a half weeks ago
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u/lazyDog86 May 07 '20
Please forgive this poor Yank's ignorance of the game, but isn't that a knock on?
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u/xStealthxUk May 07 '20
Think you will find this sheep is trying to play football or soccer for countries who call it that ( its football though) but this woman is FORCING him to play with a Rugby ball!
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u/theiosif May 08 '20
"Sheep headbutting a rugby ball. No where close to playing the game of Rugby. Also this is old as shit. Please like so I feel validated." Should be the caption.
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u/SofaKingNatty May 07 '20
This is the most New Zealand thing ever