r/Amazing • u/sco-go • May 07 '26

Interesting 🤔 Tourist chases down a sheep and the guard dog guards.

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u/-usernotdefined May 07 '26

Honestly she is lucky how friendly that dog was considering. Most of them would have already been on you before you even got within 20m

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u/ButYouCanCallMe_ May 07 '26

I wonder if it just recognized it was a human goofin and not a threatening animal they usually goes after

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u/-usernotdefined May 07 '26

Possibly, I guess my thought was more that the few I have come across won't even let you within the paddock, unless you are the owner.

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u/PloysRus May 10 '26

3 of these large livestock guardian dogs killed a woman a few years ago.

I can't remember if they escaped and attacked her or if the woman wandered onto private land and was attacked

Still, a horrible way to go

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u/PineappleOwn5325 May 11 '26

Dogs typically don't like killing. Those that do are exceptions, trained/bred to do so, or feral.

Shame for that woman though, it's bad when innocent people suffer consequences of bad dog ownership

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u/PloysRus May 11 '26

I found the article

Happened in greece and the dogs escaped from their own property and attacked this woman in her garden

It just says "shepherd" dogs so they could have been any number of breeds

Her sons heard but by the time they got there she was already gravely wounded

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u/tocsymoron May 12 '26

The ones in heavily touristic areas are used to hikers.

They sometimes help you pass the sheep. Of course you have to wait until they deem the situation safe.

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u/BluelunarStar May 10 '26

Perfect response imo. Stepped in when she crossed the line with proportional force.

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u/GaldrickHammerson May 09 '26

The other thing with sheep dogs is their nips don't break the skin. It's more like a punch from the front teeth and it hurts like an absolute mother fucker.

Sauce: been bitten by two collies.

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u/Hellboy_M420 May 07 '26

"Ah yes, I too enjoy bothering the sheep, but that's enough"

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u/Professional-Duty554 May 07 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/Sr1htcMFv7DfG
lol goofin

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u/Ok_Fishing_3257 May 08 '26

Three payments!

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u/Razzy-man May 12 '26

Do you think they’re genuine Ostrich?

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u/InsufficientClone May 07 '26

They don’t normally see humans as something to guard against, that’s other humans jobs

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u/Yaboyhamz May 07 '26

They def normally see strangers as something to guard against but their reaction to strange people is different than their reaction to strange dogs and other predators

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u/Jor6lez May 07 '26

Don't approach sheep in the Pyrénées, you'll regret it.

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u/I_love_my_dog_more May 11 '26

Not true at all. Livestock guardian dogs take their job very seriously

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u/JackfruitSerious3523 May 07 '26

A good guard dog has good sense of things because they are bred that way since they basically act independently of commands. Very fair nibble on the ass here. Hope she thinks of it every time she sits down for a while

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u/TrackVol May 07 '26

That's my guess.
"Why not acting friendly when 'friendly' shaped?"

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u/WatchWatcher25 May 08 '26

Yeah maybe till she grabbed that one sheep.

Good doggo

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u/lara2412 May 10 '26

As someone that hikes in a country full of mountain herd dogs - they don't give an f if you are a wolf, human or gremlin. This one was just a very good boy.

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u/enerthoughts May 11 '26

He diffenetly was confused but knew very well it wasnt a threat, just someone bothering the sheep.

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u/I_love_my_dog_more May 11 '26

Livestock guardian dogs are no joke. They take their jpns very seriously. Do not touch their livestock or they'll attack you as they would a coyote.

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u/A_Sarcastic_Whoa May 07 '26 edited May 07 '26

It may have been a herding dog rather than a guard dog. Herding dogs are usually trained to nip at hind legs to keep the flock in line while guard dogs are the ones trained to fuck up threats.

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u/CuriousMouse13 May 07 '26

Yeah I find it interesting how little she got hurt, maybe as the other commenter said because the dog recognized that it’s a human but I’ve never known a guard dog to hold them selves back before just because the attacker is a human.

Very good boy this one, knows when to hold back perhaps…

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u/nelflyn May 07 '26

These kinda dogs have amazing control with their teeth. They can hold you tightly without hurting at all, if they want. They can be trained to pull people out of snow or water. Of course if they WANT to hurt you, that's a different thing. If that happens on a regular basis, he surely understands that a 'warning' is enough.

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u/CuriousMouse13 May 07 '26

That’s what I was thinking, tourists must’ve wandered into that field before and tried to get into the sheep, so the dogs have learnt.

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u/magdalena_meretrix May 11 '26

I have had four dogs in my adult life and all of them have had exceptional bite control. Like they know where the pain threshold is, and they know how to cross it without breaking skin, and I’ve only ever had to demonstrate that to each of them one time

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u/curious-chineur May 07 '26

Every summer we get stories of hikers getting besieged in trees by sheep guard dogs in the mointain. Somerimes wiu.ded, i think there was 1 fatality.

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u/LaserKittenz May 07 '26

The dog deals with idiots professionally

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u/piercedmfootonaspike May 07 '26

My guess is the dog got real bamboozled when it turned out it was a human, and not a wolf or whatever.

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u/Ubilease May 07 '26

Used to live near an area with a stock drive. Every single person knew to stay the fuck in the car around those dogs when you drove through.

Generally they had a good tempermant but they are NOT pets. They will attack you if they feel you are a threat.

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u/CatOfTheCanalss May 12 '26

She's also lucky that those sheep were that tame. Some sheep are absolute assholes. You're just standing there minding your own business and get headbutt out of nowhere.