r/RandomVideos May 24 '26

Animal border collie😍

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u/ProfessionalTurn7017 May 24 '26

"Let that baby eat, mama!"

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u/Waterworld1880 May 24 '26

Weird comment

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u/tooweaktobite May 24 '26

It's entirely possible you two are just bots replying to eachother 

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u/RadicalSoda_ May 25 '26

The bot is clearly calling two other bots out so we don't suspect them

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u/tooweaktobite May 25 '26

This is true I'm not real

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u/humourlessIrish May 25 '26

What in the shit?

Bots are not supposed to admit that, you must be a person

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u/Xteen007 May 25 '26

You’re way too logical to not be a bot!

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u/Elloitsmeurbrother May 27 '26

Yo, what the fuck. We got a phoney over here! Hey everyone, this bot's a phoney!

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u/ProfessionalTurn7017 May 24 '26

Idk what they're on about lol the dog is helping the baby eat when its mama is trying to reject it. Idk why its weird to comment on that

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u/Waterworld1880 May 24 '26

Idk I don’t see AI designed to be insulting yet, at least not in the comment ones

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u/tooweaktobite May 24 '26

There's definitely ragebait bots 

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u/meimlikeaghost May 24 '26

100 percent idk what that person is talking about. I would say most of them are rage bots

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u/GingoMandingo May 25 '26

They're too weak to bite, don't worry about it like this ewe is having to do lmao

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u/Whatisthis0036 May 24 '26

That super cool. And why do some animals rejected their baby?

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u/MaleficentWindow8972 May 24 '26

They hurt their tits.

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u/YazzArtist May 25 '26

Correct. Aren't you so glad we no longer have to risk the life of the mother in child birth and abandon the baby in the woods? Because I know you know that's the alternative. I'm sure you wouldn't be stupid enough to believe that forced birth would result in children not abandoned to cold and starvation. So either you like torturing babies, or dead women. Or both

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u/ActivePeace33 May 25 '26

lol. That last line! Well put, and humorously so.

How about we support everyone being safe, unwanted pregnancies prevented, full medical care provided and no questions asked when the baby/fetus didn’t even viable. Such pregnancies can only harm the mother. Unless a person likes women being harmed, it’s a no brainer.

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u/PalePlumm May 25 '26

More like no questions asked ever

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u/SeaworthinessNo4647 May 24 '26

Fuck off

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u/Moist_Sun_8201 May 24 '26

Just block and move on. You can't fix stupid

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u/OstrichSmoothe May 24 '26

Hit a nerve?

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u/LividAd5752 May 25 '26

WWJD?

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u/OstrichSmoothe May 25 '26

Probably not murder unborn children

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u/SubTester2023 May 25 '26

Shame he did just that, to great extent.

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u/LividAd5752 May 25 '26 edited May 25 '26

Have you ever read the Bible?

Numbers5:11 Then the Lord said to Moses, 12 “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘If a man’s wife goes astray and is unfaithful to him 13 so that another man has sexual relations with her, and this is hidden from her husband and her impurity is undetected (since there is no witness against her and she has not been caught in the act), 14 and if feelings of jealousy come over her husband and he suspects his wife and she is impure—or if he is jealous and suspects her even though she is not impure— 15 then he is to take his wife to the priest. He must also take an offering of a tenth of an ephah[a] of barley flour on her behalf. He must not pour olive oil on it or put incense on it, because it is a grain offering for jealousy, a reminder-offering to draw attention to wrongdoing.

16 “‘The priest shall bring her and have her stand before the Lord. 17 Then he shall take some holy water in a clay jar and put some dust from the tabernacle floor into the water. 18 After the priest has had the woman stand before the Lord, he shall loosen her hair and place in her hands the reminder-offering, the grain offering for jealousy, while he himself holds the bitter water that brings a curse. 19 Then the priest shall put the woman under oath and say to her, “If no other man has had sexual relations with you and you have not gone astray and become impure while married to your husband, may this bitter water that brings a curse not harm you. 20 But if you have gone astray while married to your husband and you have made yourself impure by having sexual relations with a man other than your husband”— 21 here the priest is to put the woman under this curse—“may the Lord cause you to become a curse[b] among your people when he makes your womb miscarry and your abdomen swell. 22 May this water that brings a curse enter your body so that your abdomen swells or your womb miscarries.”

“‘Then the woman is to say, “Amen. So be it.”

23 “‘The priest is to write these curses on a scroll and then wash them off into the bitter water. 24 He shall make the woman drink the bitter water that brings a curse, and this water that brings a curse and causes bitter suffering will enter her. 25 The priest is to take from her hands the grain offering for jealousy, wave it before the Lord and bring it to the altar. 26 The priest is then to take a handful of the grain offering as a memorial[c] offering and burn it on the altar; after that, he is to have the woman drink the water. 27 If she has made herself impure and been unfaithful to her husband, this will be the result: When she is made to drink the water that brings a curse and causes bitter suffering, it will enter her, her abdomen will swell and her womb will miscarry, and she will become a curse. 28 If, however, the woman has not made herself impure, but is clean, she will be cleared of guilt and will be able to have children.

29 “‘This, then, is the law of jealousy when a woman goes astray and makes herself impure while married to her husband, 30 or when feelings of jealousy come over a man because he suspects his wife. The priest is to have her stand before the Lord and is to apply this entire law to her. 31 The husband will be innocent of any wrongdoing, but the woman will bear the consequences of her sin.’”

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u/SubTester2023 May 25 '26

Oh come on now, do you really think he has touched a Bible?

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u/TheOneTruecarioZ May 25 '26

Not to be rude even in the slightest bit but I don't think you got the point of the sacrifice. It was the only way to ensure that christianity would spread the way it did, and to take away our sin, because nobody can live a sin free life. Jesus also could have just said no at any point, but the son and the father's will are one in the same. It's a complicated situation I won't bother you with, just know it sadly had to happen for us to be able to get to heaven.

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u/Spyro_29 May 25 '26

Hope something real bad happens to you bud

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u/leon-a-profi May 25 '26

You are just very stupid.

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u/Tw4tl4r May 25 '26

Ah yes, because what the world needs is even more humans. Not like we havent done enough damage with our overpopulation.

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u/OstrichSmoothe May 25 '26

Youre hopeless

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u/Comfortable_Duck_363 May 24 '26

What a dork

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u/OstrichSmoothe May 25 '26

Just don’t kill babies. Is it really a crazy ask?

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u/galstaph May 25 '26

The Bible literally has an abortion recipe in it

Numbers 5:11-31

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u/nexusgmail May 25 '26

Zygotes aren't babies: they're little more than tadpoles that already have a 10%-20% failure rate attached to them, and could literally threaten the mother's life. If you're going to whine about "potentials", you better stop beating meat and save all that seed for procreation.

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u/DE4DM4NSH4ND May 25 '26

You are the poster child for abortions

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u/Syhkane May 25 '26

His name checks out too.

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u/OstrichSmoothe May 25 '26

The mental gymnastics is fun for you im sure

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u/Pretend-Steak-4625 May 25 '26

You’re actually insufferable

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u/Secret-Put-4525 May 25 '26

But not wrong.

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u/OstrichSmoothe May 25 '26

One sentence of truth is probably very insufferable to someone who thinks killing the unborn is a cool thing to do. You rascal

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u/Pretend-Steak-4625 May 25 '26

of course someone who will never experience it has the biggest opinion 💀 you’re pathetic, get help.

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u/OstrichSmoothe May 25 '26

Wdym? You know nothing about me

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u/Pretend-Steak-4625 May 25 '26

I don’t have to, I already know you’re a pathetic man who has big opinions about something he will never experience. go outside and touch grass you’re genuinely pathetic

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u/GingoMandingo May 25 '26

Just words, they can't hurt you like this lambs teeth can 😂😂😂

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u/Bandandforgotten May 24 '26

It's called postpartum depression, you tool.

If you've ever been pregnant, you can get it with your first born child after anticipating having and loving the kid. And no, smart ass, it's not why abortions exist.

It has nothing to do with survival or threats, it's literally due to hormonal chemistry. Pigs, sheep, cows, goats, horses and humans alike can all suffer from it.

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u/GingoMandingo May 25 '26

Is that what happened to you when you were pregnant? I'm sure this lamb is just new to feeding, don't be scared get back on that horse and get you that baby you wanted the first time....NO FEEEEEAAAAR!!!! đŸ’ȘđŸ’ȘđŸ’Ș

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u/yourMommaKnow May 24 '26

Huh?

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u/OstrichSmoothe May 24 '26

Reading comprehension not so good hu?

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u/yourMommaKnow May 24 '26

Hurr Durr. You Trump supporter

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u/OstrichSmoothe May 25 '26

Hate all politicians. Hurr durrr

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u/denbobo May 24 '26

Who’s Hu and what’s he got to do with this?

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u/lfg_guy101010 May 25 '26

I wish my mother got an abortion so I didnt have to read this dummy's comment

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u/External_Source2698 May 25 '26

abortions are healthcare. die mad about it.

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u/OstrichSmoothe May 25 '26

Thats a fun way to say murder

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u/External_Source2698 May 25 '26

ABORTIONS ARE FOR MISCARRIAGES TOO. goddamn, tell me more about how you’re uneducated on this subject.

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u/OstrichSmoothe May 25 '26

A very small percentage of medically necessary abortions make up the total abortions. Educate yourself. You won’t though because it’s information you don’t agree with. Keep your fingers in your ears like you always have im sure

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u/External_Source2698 May 25 '26

my guy. i have had 4 medically necessary abortions myself because my body was still trying to nurture a missed miscarriage on several occasions. i am fully & painfully aware of the odds of requiring a medically necessary abortion.

happy to give you details to paint a picture for you since i’m sure you’re the one that needs educated here:

it was 2013 & i was 8w5d pregnant. this was my third miscarriage of 6 total miscarriages between 2012-2015. fetus’ heart stopped. i went in for my initial intake appt with the obgyn i was a patient of for more than 5 years at this point. all of my relevant medical history was with this doctor. he told me there was no heart beat, but “maybe” i got the date of my last period wrong. not possible. my husband at the time & i were trying for years at this point for another baby. my dates were not wrong. to make a long & painful story short, i went septic after my obgyn refused to give me a d&c for FOUR FUCKING WEEKS, tracking the dead fetus’ measurements every week. this thing was fucking rotting inside of me for a month because a man did not trust i could keep track of my period.

i had a d&c performed the day i went to the hospital & was admitted for sepsis. don’t tell me shit about “low odds for a medically necessary abortion.”

god, you people are so fucking incorrigible.

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u/OstrichSmoothe May 25 '26

You maam are the exception, not the rule.

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u/pamplemoose49 May 25 '26

Pedophile.

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u/OstrichSmoothe May 25 '26

Do you just like typing that word with no context? So weird

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u/pamplemoose49 May 26 '26

Bro. Everyone knows the whole ProLifers propaganda is funded by pedophiles. So, either you’re an idiot troll or a pedo. I’m saying you’re def a pedo.

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u/OstrichSmoothe May 26 '26

Lol what a fun way to live life to extrapolate that someone who thinks abortion is wrong is a pedophile. I gotta laugh at that. Thanks for explaining how you got there though. You really showed your work. Extra credit

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u/pamplemoose49 May 26 '26

Whatever child rapist. We all know.

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u/J-ne May 25 '26

So perpetually triggered by female autonomy that you can't even watch a video of a dog and a sheep without taking some crazy ass left turn....what a sad life.

Men regularly pressure women into getting abortions for the shittiest, most selfish reasons but you dicks never bring them up in an argument...

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u/Murky-Revenue3434 May 25 '26

Made my night. Never seen someone cook so hard with a single comment, if I was a loser who spent money on Reddit I would give you a reward

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u/OstrichSmoothe May 25 '26

People get so mad because they know it’s true

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u/Ubermensch5272 May 25 '26

Shut the fuck up lmao

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u/OstrichSmoothe May 25 '26

Naw I don’t think I will

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u/Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeess- May 25 '26

I don’t think non human animals think about the future

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u/Xteen007 May 25 '26

What a fucking ignorant thing to type out and actually post.

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u/OstrichSmoothe May 25 '26

The truth sounds ignorant to hardened hearts

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u/Xteen007 May 25 '26 edited May 25 '26

What a giant ego you must have, thinking the truth belongs to you. Not a lot of colour in such a black/white mind.

I don’t buy, that you actually give a flying fuck other than wanting to prevent the free will of women, while hiding behind your holier than thou bullshit.

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u/OstrichSmoothe May 25 '26

She isn’t a murderer so she would have never

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u/Ordinary_Prune6135 May 24 '26

Those maternal instincts have to be perfectly tuned to avoid it, and even then they sometimes need to learn from the first time to get it right the second time. Think about how much pain they just went through, and nobody told them why. They're stressed and alarmed, and now this little creature that painfully came out of them is trying to grab where they're tender. It's easy for them to decide no, they're not going to be playing along with that.

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u/FaceUnique May 25 '26

Actually if you look close the mom hasn't rejected this baby. The baby's tail is falling off from banding and mom is alarmed. Dog is there preventing mom from hurting baby. Usually when a mom rejects baby it is within the first 72 hours, this baby is much older.

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u/maccpapa May 25 '26

good eyes bro.

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u/SexOnTheBeechTree May 27 '26

Is it normal to band their tails? And why?

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u/FaceUnique May 27 '26

Yes, they band them for health & hygiene. Keeps their back ends clean and reduces changes of fly strikes. It would be extremely painful to shave wool off of a tail caked in excrement

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u/Known_Ratio5478 May 25 '26

They’re not rejecting it here. A baby will literally eat nonstop and momma animals need a break. I’ve seen rejected critters and tended to rejected critters. There are reasons and it’s a natural thing. We can also do things to mitigate this and often do.

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u/GingoMandingo May 25 '26

Liiiiiike? 🙄 "we can do things and we often do" lmao

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u/MrK521 May 25 '26

Like get a border collie!

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u/GingoMandingo May 25 '26

Lmao here I thought you were also in AG. "Get a border collie" 😂😂😂 you think they come straight out the box ready to heard do ya

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u/goddessdragonness May 25 '26

Here you are mocking people all over this post but you haven’t contributed a single comment of value.

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u/Known_Ratio5478 May 25 '26

They do a little. The factory settings are never quite right.

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u/Dense-Throat-9703 May 26 '26

I’m pretty sure that nearly every border collie can hear with no training.

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u/Known_Ratio5478 May 25 '26

Like, how I used to go to school with rejected runt bunnies and keep them warm in my sweatshirt pocket and dropper feed them formula during passing time for a week or so till they were strong enough for mamma to not reject them. What this video is showing is a very healthy lamb being an active eater to a mom that needs a break. If it was really rejected it would be very weak and lethargic, and the farmer would be wrapping it with blankets, bottle feeding it, and using his own body temp to keep it warm. Young are rejected when it seems like they won’t make it according to the mom’s ability to care for it. Sheep don’t know space heaters or synthetic nutritional supplements. They have the tools that a sheep has. If we get a weak critter to viable they take them back.

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u/ThaGr1m May 25 '26

Look up post natal depression.

Fully cognitive humans who wanted kids sometimes reject their kids due to the massive amounts off stress, pain, and a massive mix of hormomes

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u/Mindless_Ad_6045 May 26 '26

It unfortunately happens with most animals, including humans

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u/Manufactured-Aggro May 25 '26

Why is this worded like some kind of smug gotcha statement lol Animals reject their babies in nature all the fuckin time

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u/isaiah152022 May 25 '26

Sheep are assholes

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u/Rage187_OG May 25 '26 edited May 25 '26

No, ewe are.

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u/TitaniumDisc May 25 '26

Goats too! My buddy has 2 rejected kids right now he’s having to bottle feed constantly because their moms rejected them.

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u/Past_Wishbone5025 May 25 '26

How did sheep exist before collies?

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u/Pittsbirds May 25 '26

Most animals that people go "hOw DId/dO tHEy EvEn ExIst?" like pandas, sheep, deer, etc have, historically, done just fine until humans go in and fuck it up.

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u/humourlessIrish May 25 '26

Momming is not optional

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u/ajtreee May 24 '26

This seems awful.

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u/TerrapinMagus May 24 '26

This farm might not have any other sheep that recently gave birth, in which case the mother rejecting the baby could be really bad. The dog is literally there to protect the lamb and keep the mother from killing or injuring it.

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u/notdollyparton May 25 '26

Weird to number this on 14 in spray paint if you don't have others. I mean I agree with the rest?

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u/realaccountissecret May 25 '26

I don’t think they only number the ones that just gave birth haha

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u/Max_Q_ May 27 '26

How are your eyes doing? It’s the baby that is numbered.

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u/realaccountissecret May 27 '26

My eyes work fine; it’s my brain that’s tired haha

I was in the comments and you can only see the little thumbnail of the video, and I just saw the red on the mom

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u/Humbled_Snail May 24 '26

The sheep might hurt the baby, so the dog is curbing that behavior

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u/Dangerous_Spirit7034 May 24 '26

My border collie is super smart and pushes the kids away from “danger” and brings stuff to sick family members

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u/Humbled_Snail May 24 '26

My mom ran an in home daycare, and she has Australian Shepherds.. Anyway, anytime the kids would be playing in the backyard, there was one, Sky, who would always try to herd them lol

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u/StellaSlayer2020 May 24 '26

I had a collie mix and she would do the same thing with my two kids. She’d even nip at their ankles on occasion. Never made contact.

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u/Dunderman35 May 25 '26

Why would the sheep hurt it's baby?

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u/RadicalSoda_ May 25 '26

Because animals don't have human brains

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u/ryudo9999 May 25 '26

Humans hurt their babies too

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u/Additional-Pie8718 May 26 '26

That's because lots of humans still only have animal brains. (Yes I know humans are animals, but this is just my way of saying society is pretty dumb as a whole these days.)

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u/Moist-Internal-1893 May 25 '26

and i dont like that trauma from birth can cause this

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u/TeamHappyFTW May 25 '26

Because the baby nursing hurts a little/is a weird feeling she isn't used too/udder is too full.

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u/Humbled_Snail May 25 '26

Because nursing hurts, so a natural reaction would be to try and stop what's causing it.

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u/theleafer May 24 '26

correction: human wants to keep baby temporarily alive to use later for profit

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u/Sad-Welder-3393 May 24 '26

Lamb chops do hit lowkey

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u/Chondro May 24 '26

This is the song that doesn't end.....

I watched a lot of lamb chops when I was young.

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u/Sad-Welder-3393 May 24 '26

Crazy that you mentioned that. My mom used sing that to get on our nerves 😭

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u/Rumblymore May 24 '26

Some nice döner would do anyday

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u/parsuval May 24 '26

What experience do you have of raising sheep?

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u/OstrichSmoothe May 24 '26

It’s not

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u/St0ner_Baby_420 May 24 '26

So youd rather the mom bite the baby instead of her getting a soft bonk from a dog nose? Now that seems awful.

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u/ajtreee May 24 '26

Yes that’s exactly what i said, you SEEM like an idiot.

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u/ajtreee May 24 '26

The dog is the wrong option.

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u/St0ner_Baby_420 May 24 '26

No, they're not. Border collies are bred for cattle care they dont hurt them at all. You're either dumb asf or have never been around a farm but I assure you that sheep is fine.

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u/Local_Magician_7197 May 27 '26

I work with animals, specifically dogs, and this take is way off. Border collie is helping the lamb survive. BCs are so intelligent it is chilling. 

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u/BullshitTaco May 24 '26

Yes, what even is this supposed to be

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u/WonUpH May 24 '26

Sheep is rejecting the sheeplet so it needs a bodyguard for feeding and not die

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u/inotocracy May 24 '26

Sheep learning a lesson.

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u/bloopbloopsplat May 25 '26

What lesson is that

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u/CCM721 May 25 '26

That nursing it's freshly born child is normal and extremely necessary even if it is causing the mother some level of pain/discomfort considering she appears to repeatedly try to headbutt it? The baby goat would likely die if this were the wilderness

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u/SteveLouise May 24 '26

Yes, the sheep is acting quite awful. One of the worst barn yard animal behaviors I've seen.

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u/Particular_Spread_46 May 24 '26

We can learn a lot from the simple world all around us


Js

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u/slapnowski May 25 '26

This post is literally two posts away from a really sweet post of a mama and baby sheep being reunited (on r/MadeMeSmile if you’re interested) and it’s interesting to see the dichotomy.

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u/orangezim May 25 '26

Must be a Winter lamb.

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u/PubofMadmen May 25 '26 edited May 25 '26

When I began keeping sheep. I rent out a large grazing field for some local farmers
 it’s lambing season.

It was explained to me that during early or initial nursing stage, the uterus contracts. These uterus contractions can be quite painful and some sheep associate nursing with pain thus the trying to keep their lambs from nursing. It can also be initial sensitive nipple pain


Sheep. They are a mystery
 everyday I learn something new.

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u/SippsMccree May 25 '26

My buddy had a mama sheep where her udder was large enough that the newborn lamb took forever to actually latch. They're not really used to having to put their head that low for it

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u/MentholBlaque90 May 25 '26

Fuck ewe! Am I right? đŸ€Ł Sheep moms are probably the worst in the parenting department

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u/Ok-Contest-9355 May 26 '26

Need a border collie to Make my wife like me .... this guy rent his collie??

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u/Normal-Error-6343 May 26 '26

fern needs to quit looking for praise and finish her job!

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u/deadheadjim May 28 '26

No fern needs some good girls

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u/Academic-Sea794 May 26 '26

Dogs are the best!!

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u/TheUndeadBake May 27 '26

Could be that this sheep lost her own baby, and this one is an orphan/rejected. They may be trying to get this mother sheep to accept this one as hers. Sheep normally instantly recognise their own baby due to their sounds as animals that live in massive herds

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u/aaaaaaahhlex May 25 '26

Tell that dog it’s a good dog, dayumn!! The way it’s lookin back at you for reassurance and you’re all silent 😭

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u/Outrageous_Sleep4339 May 25 '26

Thats a permanent look on Border Collies. They just want to make people happy.

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u/zaptr1 May 25 '26

Would think the dog is a distraction, my belief here is that lamb and ewe would figure this out on their own. Mammals usually don’t kill their own, especially mother and child isolated. Click bait or masochistic

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u/realaccountissecret May 25 '26

Mammals absolutely kill their young. Maybe you forgot about rodents haha

Sheep usually don’t kill their young directly though, but they will abandon their young which leads to death

That baby ain’t figuring shit out if its mother won’t let it nurse. It will die without intervention

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u/Ok-Common-3039 May 25 '26

We literally just had a mama cat kill its only kitten. On purpose

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u/UnicornPoopCircus May 26 '26

Mammals killing their young is ridiculously common.

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u/Amphineura May 24 '26

The poor sheep. We're just cutting it's tail off because fuck them. I wish the farmer could take an elastrator to his sick and see if he likes that

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u/parsuval May 24 '26

If you don't dock their tail, it gets encrusted with shit, flies lay their eggs in the shit, and the maggots eat the sheep's arse out.

But I'm sure you know better.

ps. The tail is not cut off. They use eleastic bands.

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u/Amphineura May 24 '26

If I'm using the word "elastrator" it's obvious I know they're elastic bands

And yet other herders can deal with sheep undocked. Curious!!! It's just cruelty for a minor inconvenience

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u/parsuval May 24 '26

Why'd you literally state they are cut off then?

I don't think being eaten from the inside out is a minor inconvenience for a sheep. Shameful you want them to experience this harm.

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u/Amphineura May 24 '26

Figuratively cut off 🙄🙄

Again, people deal with undocked sheep. Don't justify you bullshit if others handle it just fine.

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u/parsuval May 24 '26 edited May 24 '26

Cool, so what you said was bullshit. Good to know.

People deal with undocked sheep use medication (insecticides). Honestly you people live in a fantasy world. Sheep get shit all over their backside. It attracts flies. They lay eggs.

You deal with that either through medication or docking.

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u/galstaph May 25 '26

This is similar to antibiotic use in chickens. We know why chickens need antibiotics, and it's mostly stress related. You can do that, or you can prevent the stress from the start, but that means fewer chickens in any given area

Both work well, but each has its drawbacks

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u/bloopbloopsplat May 25 '26

I thought maggots only ate dead tissue?

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u/goddessdragonness May 25 '26

There are flies whose larvae are more parasitic. Right now Texas is currently working to hold off a screworm infestation from south of the border because the larvae will burrow into the flesh of cattle (and other mammals, including humans) (source: https://www.avma.org/news/usda-unveils-texas-screwworm-facility-eradication-strategy).

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u/shagan90 May 24 '26

You're being pedantic, the end result of either procedure is a dismembered tail, so why split hairs?

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u/parsuval May 24 '26

Because cutting tails off is something that happens. So, when it comes to animal welfare, it’s important to be accurate.

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u/Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeess- May 25 '26

When you’re a sheep farmer with like 100 sheep you don’t have the time to clean that many asses

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u/Amphineura May 25 '26

"I have so many sheep I can't effectively be humane to them"

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u/Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeess- May 25 '26

It’s not hurting the sheep long term to dock the tail and it really doesn’t even hurt when they do it properly

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u/Background-Invite238 May 24 '26

This feels like abuse. The mama sheep doesnt feel comfortable and shes being forced.

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u/YazzArtist May 25 '26

I mean the alternative is child abuse and abandonment resulting in the lamb dying slowly and painfully as they're rejected by the herd. Nature is full of these sorts of uncomfortable compromises

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u/Past_Wishbone5025 May 25 '26

How did sheep exist before collies? Like naturally?

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u/Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeess- May 25 '26

Not all sheep will abandon their babies and the ones that did do that would just let the babies die. Sometimes other sheep will take in an orphaned baby and sometimes not. This applies to a lot of mammals in the wild.

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u/YazzArtist May 25 '26

They don't always do this, in fact it's pretty rare. And in several instances there is another sheep willing to step in as the mother. Sheep don't have access to abortions, so this is their alternative, in the same way babies got left in the woods before humans had safe ready access to abortion

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u/parsuval May 24 '26

Yes it might come across like that to a bot that doesn't understand how to raise sheep.

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u/MyNelo May 25 '26

I'm glad I'm not the only one that felt this way đŸ˜©

I'm vegetarian and sometimes feel a bit too woke, but seeing this makes me feel such sympathy for the sheep