The contestants include a Caribbean-born transvestite who totters across the mud in stilettos and a germ-phobic choreographer who dons rubber gloves while trying to herd sheep.
Because the dogs are meant to herd rebellious sheep from different angles, each is played a separate and individual tune drilled into their memories when pups.
My mother, Patricia Cockburn, took my temperature and asked Paddy McMahon, an elderly man who looked after the walled garden and our small herd of sheep, to bicycle into the town of Youghal a mile and a half away, to get a doctor.
When I got my troubled border collie Orson, we started learning to herd at a sheep farm in Pennsylvania.
The farmer, who has a herd of 1120 sheep, failed to provide a suitable environment for his livestock between 1 October 2011 and 23 February last year.
The court was told the farmer, who has a herd of 1, 120 sheep, failed to provide a suitable environment for his livestock between 1 October last year and 23 February this year.
The farmer, who has a herd of 1, 120 sheep, has been accused of failing to provide a suitable environment for his livestock between 1 October last year and 23 February this year at Welton of Creuchies farm.
BBC: Perthshire Farmer accused of abandoning animal carcasses
Not the silence of the lambs, but the silence of the sheep, and the herd instinct that goes with it.
He failed to remove 354 animal carcasses, having failed to provide adequate nutrition, a suitable diet or appropriate sheltered accommodation for his herd of cattle and flock of sheep.
The bus startled a herd of yaks who stampeded off the road like sheep as we approached.
Most shepherds graze sheep, some yaks, but many also have a herd of horses left to wander the valleys throughout summer.
BBC: The way of the shepherd: Horse trekking through Kyrgyzstan
They followed a path invisible under the snow, down toward the woods along the side of a big L-shaped field, the dog scouting ahead of them, racing back on her tracks to herd her humans together, straining her ears yearningly at the perturbed, watchful sheep.
After the latest case, in a suckler herd, Scottish farmers have been urged to be "more alert than ever" to issues among their cattle or sheep.
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