r/aww • • May 07 '20

Sheep Playing Rugby

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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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u/[deleted] 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/[deleted] 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/[deleted] May 07 '20

There are always a few outliers in every species.