#herding
And now for something completely different...
A dog went missing after a car crash. He was found on an Idaho farm herding sheep.
... The June 6 collision shattered their back window and their dog, Tilly, was thrown from the vehicle. Nobody was seriously hurt in the accident, they said, but when Linda Oswald climbed out of the car, she noticed Tilly running as fast as he could across northern Idaho’s Rathdrum Prairie.
... “Dozens of people stopped everything they were doing and went out and looked for him,” she said. “In the middle of the night, people were out calling for him. I was extremely grateful.”
... Then on the morning of June 8, three brothers with a farm in Rathdrum noticed something unusual in one of their pastures: A reddish-brown, bobtailed dog was racing around, herding their sheep, Oswald said.
... When the Oswalds heard Tilly was found, Mike Oswald raced out to pick him up.
“As soon he came home, I ran out to give Tilly a hug, but he wasn’t having it,” Linda Oswald said, adding that Tilly was unharmed in the accident. “I think he was a little mad that he’d been left on the prairie for 48 hours. He ran straight inside the house and started drinking water from the toilet.”
... Border collies take naturally to herding because they were originally bred for that purpose, according to the Border Collie Society of America.
... Although it isn’t known where Tilly was before he was spotted on the sheep farm, Oswald said she believes he was making his way home after the car accident and became distracted.
“He saw all those sheep and just wanted to go to work,” she said.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2021/06/15/dog-idaho-crash-herding-sheep/
