Considering the nature of such visually guided cooperative interactions between dog and human, e.g. herding a flock of sheep, dogs could benefit from being able to change their behaviour from one moment to the next according to human stimuli and to inhibit decisions based exclusively on their own assessment of the current situation.
Owners of border collies in Washington state looking for ways to keep their dogs occupied can now rent flocks of sheep for their dogs to herd.
She swam laps all winter, walked with her dogs, had flocks of friends.
As sunset approaches about 5 30 p.m. young dogs will start to chase each other and they and others begin to twitter, sounding like a flock of birds instead of a pack of dogs.
There was the woman who struck a moose on the Merritt Parkway in New Canaan earlier this year, the state troopers who more than once risked stepping into dangerous traffic on the highway to rescue stray dogs, and the flocks of geese and wild turkeys that caused humans to rubberneck.
More than 30,000 Dinka refugees had fled their villages to the relative safety of a Médecins Sans Frontières clinic just across the Nile, and the convoy slowly weaved its way through abandoned mud hut villages while flocks of scavenging birds and contented looking dogs watched.
More than 30,000 Dinka refugees had fled their villages to the relative safety of a Médecins Sans Frontières clinic just across the Nile, and the convoy slowly weaved its way through abandoned mud hut villages, watched by flocks of scavenging birds and contented-looking dogs.
The dogs upset the great flocks of crows — karasu — that nest in the foliage or perch insolently on the tombs and whose bitter cawing fractures the peace.
Then they find ways to protect their flocks with dogs or fences.
The whistling of shepherds; the barking of dogs; the strange cry of a conch, blown by the farmer's boy: these are the sounds that accompany this ancient tradition as the flock streams down across thistle and slate.
