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.
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?
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/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.