Sentences with phrase «sheep farms not»

After that, the dogs are going through complete veterinary checks, receive vaccinations, and are being temporarily homed in a variety of kennels and personal homes so that they can be socialised and trained to be permanently placed as either pets, or, in some cases, returned to working sheep farms not affected by FMD so they can resume their previous way of life.

Not exact matches

One of my parishioners immediately leaped to his feet and, asserting that I had never worked on a farm and therefore knew nothing about sheep, proceeded not only to challenge what I had just said but to make me look like an idiot.

I remember a trainer telling us not to take her out to a farm with sheep because she'd love it so much that she'd never be happy again at home with us.

By Renee Ciulla Green rolls of open hills dotted with lines of solid, red silos and white grazing sheep appeal to and please even those who aren't passionate about farming themselves.

The Festival of Sacrifice is responsible for untold suffering of cattle, sheep and goats — millions of whom have been sold for profit through Australia's live export trade; closer to home, in the name of Christmas, highly intelligent pigs and turkeys not only experience the terror of slaughter, but entire lifetimes of suffering in factory farms; and sporting events such as bull fights and rodeos still present cruelty as «entertainment»...

I didn't tell her that eight in the morning was a little late for deep - sleeping farm animals, nor that there is absolutely no such thing as tiptoeing past a pasture full of twelve mouthy sheep (the matriarch, Emily is a mouthy one, and can rouse the rest of the crew into a chorus when she wants to).

While I may not be ready to lay myself down upon a fresh bed of sheep poop, I do think I should follow her in her farm fashion.

It comes from sheep raised organically, which means the sheep don't overgraze and make the farm land infertile.

We chose a Montessori school for them - not only because we believe in the education style, but because the school is part of a 6 - acre farm with chickens, sheep, indoor and outdoor composting, and plenty of open space to run and play.

The Volkening planners are being so precise about the authenticity of their farm that they are evicting five sheep, members of a breed — horned dorset — that wouldn't have been seen on an 1880s farm, King said.

Correction: Tkaczyk called to advise she was raised on a dairy farm inNew Jersey, not upstate Duanesburg, where she currently herds sheep.

But according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the number of experimental cats, dogs, rabbits, guinea pigs, hamsters, sheep, swine and primates has been dropping, from 1.5 million (not including many farm animals that are now counted) in 1973 to 1 million in 2006.

I have some farming experience, and know that sheep with a sulphur deficiency don't grow a whole lot of wool of high quality!

I like Kristof, and not just because he grew up on an Oregon sheep and cherry farm not far from where I was growing up on a sheep and filbert farm.

I grew up in the countryside, not on a farm but with enough land for the odd sheep to graze, and my mother was the daughter of a farmer.

It isn't long before the whole farm — workhorses Tug and Pull, Fluff the sheep, Figgy the pig, Mrs. Brown the cow, Nanny the goat and her kid, Tick — work with Burdock to concoct an escape plan.

These are, after all, pure working dogs and while we don't own a farm or have sheep Ned the dog still needs a job!

Livestock / farm animals kept as pets and regularly seen as patients at the college include not only pigs, but also cattle, goats, sheep and camelids, Dr. Stockler adds.

This happy little sheep is an animal advocate with Edgar's who travels with sanctuary founder, Pam Ahern, spreading the word that farm animals are «someones, not somethings.»

The seven Colorado programs provide exposure to a variety of animals: zoo animals (variable types); farm animals (cattle, horses, sheep, goats, pigs, llamas); exotic animals (snakes, lizards, turtles, owls, eagles, hawks, vultures); lab animals (rats, mice, guinea pigs); and, of course, pets (ferrets, hamsters, birds, cats and dogs), though not all these in every program.

If you are a sheep rancher in a remote region of Montana, or only have a small flock of sheep in a hobby farm in Wisconsin or Minnesota, these classes may not be available.

«When they amble into the car and head down the road towards the farm they can't wait to get there, to begin moving the sheep into a pen,» Clark says.

And, I learned that her name isn't Emily — puppy farm dogs don't have names of course, because they're just breeding stock, like cows or sheep.

It is not an accident that Kennel Club Greyhounds are not found at the track, that Kennel Club terriers are not found in the field, that Kennel Club sled dogs are not found on the Iditarod, or that Kennel Club Border Collies are not found on working sheep farms.

We got to do the T.S.S. Earnslaw, but did not do the sheep farm.

Ark: Survival Evolved developer Studio Wildcard has clarified that the Ovis Aries — better known to the world as «sheep» — will be coming to the game in its next major update, regardless of whether or not it takes the prize for «Best Use of a Farm Animal» in the ongoing Steam Awards.

Having mainly used sea creatures in his previous formaldehyde works, Hirst embraced the strange juxtaposition that a farm animal presented, saying: «When I did the sheep I remember thinking that it might not work, because what was good about the fish was that you were putting them into their own habitat, liquid, but then with the sheep, it just had a brilliant sort of tragedy.

In others, they become tourists in their own city, using television as an excuse and enabler for activities they either would or could not otherwise take part in, such as a helicopter ride over Manhattan or a visit to a sheep farm.

She now paints, looks after her four children and - as if this wasn't enough - also manages to run a farm with 10 Kerry cattle and 130 sheep.

However, this doesn't serve the needs of the wolf in sheep's clothing known as the Farm Bill and its bottomless subsidies to agri corporations.

The mining industry in Australia also hasn't been massive for all that long a time, and the real cultural hero here is the «Aussie battler» out on the farm or sheep station; they don't have the kind of industrial heroes that capture the imagination of the US.

But together with a spike in sheep deformities, also not necessarily connected to wind, reports of erratic behaviour by farm dogs and an exodus of residents complaining of ill health, Waterloo is a case study of the emotional conflict being wrought by the rollout of industrial wind power.

Whether it's young farmers farming with horses and rediscovering sheep dogs, or backyard farmers with more than 5 decades of experience, what matters is not whether our farmers conform to the stereotypes we've created, but whether we are willing to listen to them and see them for who they really are.