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[–] Tonava@sopuli.xyz 25 points 7 hours ago

One of my pet peeves: he's not a herding type of dog, but a livestock guardian. Very important difference in instinct, behaviour and purpose. He does not herd, he guards!

[–] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 44 points 1 day ago

Look at the dog's eyes, he ain't retiring... He just getting started.

[–] jimjam5@lemmy.world 23 points 23 hours ago (1 children)
[–] JargonWagon@lemmy.world 22 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Cropped the image to remove the redundancy at the bottom and also a little bit of the weird framing at the top.

[–] OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 11 points 4 hours ago

You're doing god's work. (You should probably run)

[–] drolex@sopuli.xyz 57 points 1 day ago

Casper, lighting a cigarette: "a well earned retirement. I'm getting too old for this job"

The shepherd: "the coyotes, they've taken Woolly the lamb"

Casper: 🐶😡🔫

[–] mlg@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

Actually I think he was intentionally straying to have any remaining coyotes track him away from the herd. He waited it out before returning.

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago (2 children)

They should check to see if the dog had a pencil.

[–] 0x0@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 hours ago

Or a teacup.

[–] HamsterRage@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 day ago

A f***king pencil!

[–] Nasan@sopuli.xyz 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

Bro really needs to stop huffing Rhydo, it's NOT doing good things to his body.

[–] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago

Those eyes have seen some shit.

[–] ilega_dh@feddit.nl 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

“I will find you and I will kill you” ahh dog

[–] gmanlikescheese@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Are you trying to say ass-dog?

[–] mdd@lemm.ee 4 points 21 hours ago
[–] CaliforniaSober@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago

Graduated to house boo.