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She was here when I brought Sophie in from school at 3:30. At 4::30  
when I walked down to meet Maeve at the bus stop, I found the triplets  
running around screaming.

My property is long and thin and the house is the complete opposite  
end of the road. The gates are drive-through.  I can't see them from  
the house. She was a doting mama. She didn't leave those babies even  
if the whole flocked drifted.
And she came from a very good line of terrific mamas.

We took the ponies out and hunted for about two hours till we lost the  
light. No sign of her.

I have Border Collies. Herding dogs. I can't leave them out there to  
watch the sheep because they'd do nothing but move the sheep around  
obsessively.

There isn't a predator problem here so I didn't feel the need to get a  
LGD. Now I do. The guy at the co-op said it's the second one he's  
heard of in the last few weeks.

I have got two of these babies on a milk bar but the third is being a  
real pain. I am not sure he will make the adjustment fast enough.

I turned them out in my front yard so I could keep an eye on them. One  
of the other mothers is gathering them up with her own. If she keeps  
on with that I will be well pleased.




On Mar 7, 2008, at 12:46 PM, Gene GeRue wrote:

> On Mar 7, 2008, at 9:52 AM, paxamicus AT earthlink.net wrote:
>
> > I'm going to offer up some thoughts, however, for what they are  
> > worth.
> > There are a lot of aspects to what you are asking.
>
> Thank you for a well-thought-out and well-presented post.
> > I'm throwing this out as I'm sitting here in my sheep shed, which my
> > husband made wireless for me a little while ago. I am baby sitting my
> > triplets, whose mother disappeared last night and whom I think was
> > stolen.
>
> Yikes. I hope you find her. Stolen!? I thought you had dogs. What kind
> of jerk would do such a thing? Yes, you need to find a new place.
>
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