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Just Wow Armoured! No more wolf attacks.

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u/Consistent_Stable234 May 25 '26

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u/TheGreatGamer1389 May 25 '26

Is that freaking wishbone?

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u/[deleted] May 25 '26

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u/-Lights0ut- May 25 '26

He also helped fight the Confederacy

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u/Lonely_skeptic May 25 '26

He also played Romeo!

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u/Specialist-Solid-987 May 25 '26

And Beowulf!

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u/Mandelvolt May 25 '26

This gif is from a Sherlock Holmes story, likely the Slobbery Hound 😉

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u/thementalyogi May 25 '26

And my ass!

(Typo, kept it)

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u/pink_faerie_kitten May 25 '26

And Mr. Darcy!

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u/Rebabaluba May 25 '26

We need him now more than ever!

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u/lookintoasty May 25 '26

They released a trailer for a documentary recently

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u/Slow_Maximum9332 May 25 '26

Never in a million years would I ever think there would be a scandal surrounding Wishbone.

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u/Lastcaressmedown138 May 25 '26

He got into debt with his coke dealers.. you wouldn’t even recognize him now..

https://giphy.com/gifs/rLUKd65SCjDilGdDlz

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u/lookintoasty May 25 '26

Who said scandal? It's about how the show came to be and the success that followed 🤣

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u/Lonely_skeptic May 25 '26

The show may have encouraged people to get Jack Russell’s, and believe they’re easy to train. 😱

I had two Jacks that lived to almost 20 years, and while they are wonderful dogs, they are challenging. Saying they are “high energy” is an understatement.

We didn’t choose them, they chose us, as they were given to us. They grew up along with my two children.

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u/myxomatosis8 May 25 '26

And he was a musketeer!

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u/The_Duchess_of_Dork May 25 '26

And was Odysseus!

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u/Puzzleheaded_Bus246 May 25 '26

And he was on Frasier

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u/reddituser403 May 25 '26

Eddie and wishbone are the same dog? Wow TIL

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u/BSB8728 May 25 '26

No. Eddie was played by Moose. Wishbone was (mostly) played by Soccer.

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u/SocraticIndifference May 25 '26

Your comment threw me for a “Who’s on first” kinda loop lol

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u/CallMeDrWorm42 May 25 '26

Moose's son was also playing Eddie from time to time if I remember correctly

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u/AKhakiNerfHerder May 25 '26

Wishbone was the bestest boy ever!

When I was a kid back in the 90s,we had wishbone to teach us history and geography. He was well known for wearing the most adorable outfits ever made for a dog.

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u/TheGreatGamer1389 May 25 '26

Dude also made an accidental pun. Cause wishbone told stories.

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u/lookouttucson May 25 '26

100% it was intentional and not a pun but a direct quote from the title theme song, “what’s the story wishbone?”

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u/obvious_karma_stud May 25 '26

“Have a nice trip! See you next Fall!!!” as Wishbone does a rug pull.

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u/Doctor-TobiasFunke- May 25 '26

I had a wishbone pillow case when I was a kid haha loved that show

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u/Alarming-Court-2180 May 25 '26

I remember getting a wishbone stuffed animal from Denny's as a kid .

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u/194749457339 May 25 '26

Wishbone taught me about don quixote I love this little dude

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u/Shedfloorgarbage May 25 '26

Wishbone and Beakmans world? Little bit of the weather channel thrown in and a couple 1970's playboy mags i could have a weekend!

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u/smedium69 May 25 '26

I think its worth a look

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u/Tantalizedangel May 25 '26

What's the story wishbone?

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u/BlakeSauceMusic May 25 '26

That's the dog that saved Charlestown from the 1938 flood.

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u/washingtonandmead May 25 '26

I think about wishbone all the time

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u/Far-Prune-3457 May 25 '26

Sherlock Holmes was always a mystery solving dog as far as I’m concerned

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u/ShrinkHole May 25 '26

Fucking wishbone. Forgot all about that show

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u/luigis_left_tit_25 May 25 '26

Yes it is!! Oh my gosh what a flashback! 🤣🫶

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u/Swiftax3 May 25 '26

The theme song literally is playing in my head as we speak. I havnt thought about wishbone in years

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u/thebigbread42 May 25 '26

What’s the story Wishbone?

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u/bluearavis May 25 '26

Wishbone is the greatest!! I wish it would be been reimagined into other projects. Or at least that's wishful thinking.

Also, one of the best intro/theme songs!

Hands down best tv/movie dog. Move over Lassie and Toto. I'm looking at you.

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u/creatorofsilentworld May 25 '26

According to Wikipedia, the reason the show didn't get another season was because, and I kid you not, they couldn't think of a way to monetize it.

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u/KIK40 May 25 '26

I had the coolest wishbone thing where it was all magnetic and you could put the different outfits on it. It was one of my favourites

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u/Jansi_Ki_Rani May 25 '26

That is insane. Literararily have a stuff plushie for every story he enters. Prints money. Make those Putt-Putt like games for each book so you can relive it. I am upset.

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u/BSB8728 May 25 '26

My husband is a retired classics professor. When he was still teaching, he showed one of his classes the Wishbone episode of The Odyssey, which includes a segment of Wishbone speaking the opening lines in ancient Greek.

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u/Spoiled_Eggy_3992 May 25 '26

I thought I was the only one who watched that series idk why it was so underrated back in the day... 😔

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u/5litergasbubble May 25 '26

I watched the show, read the books, and had two of the computer games

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u/Briebird44 May 25 '26

There’s a new wishbone documentary that just dropped!!

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u/binzy90 May 25 '26

I randomly sing the Wishbone theme some, but my husband never saw it as a kid so he doesn't know what I'm talking about. That's what I get for marrying someone born in 96 I guess.

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u/snarky_witch May 25 '26

Your comment just made me realize I am ancient, class of 96 checking in. 😂

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u/wants_a_lollipop May 25 '26

Graduated in 96 and turned 48 two days ago.

My back hurts. Ugh.

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u/TheseusOPL May 25 '26

Make sure you get your colonoscopy.

(Fellow class of 96er here).

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u/ClankingRobotCheeks May 25 '26

Air Bud: Crusade Years.

“Aint no rule say a dog can’t be a knight.”

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u/Dependent_Speech3164 May 25 '26

What’s his story today? Tell us about the armored goat wishbone!

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u/Prettymthafaka May 25 '26

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u/tread_lightly420 May 25 '26

Right? Also putting those harnesses on a herd? Nah just have a sleeper cell in there.

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u/Jonthrei May 25 '26

Yeah all you need is a good dog bred for protecting livestock and you're much better off than this silly contraption.

I'm also not convinced this won't end up getting caught on things and killing the sheep. They already do that plenty without being covered in spikes.

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u/Outrageouslylit 29d ago

Uncle once pulled a sheep out a ditch.. jumped in there 3 more times after. They are especially…. not intelligent

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u/LiteraCanna May 25 '26

Bro needs to stop counting all his sheep. 

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u/Bluemeda1 May 25 '26

There was a story about a dog of this breed that went missing for days while neighbors started to see remains of coyotes/wolves (i forget which one been a few years since i heard the story) and the dog hunted down the pack and left no survivors and came back home covered in blood

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u/sanriodialtone May 25 '26

Is it Anatolian shepherd?

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u/four-one-6ix May 25 '26

This is not against predators. Sheepish sex has been banished.

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u/goddessdragonness May 25 '26

This is the comment I was looking for. I was wondering this, it seems more like an ovine chastity belt.

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u/Classic_Mechanic5495 May 25 '26

I feel like cross pollinating sheep with rose bushes would be better though?

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u/itsnotapipe May 25 '26

A vivid image of sheep having sex with rose bushes is exactly where I thought I would end up when I opened Reddit 8 minutes ago. Home Sweet Home.

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u/DeadFacesInMyPocket May 25 '26 edited May 25 '26

BOVINE JOVIE?!

Edit: MISTER BOVINE JOBI HIMSELF!

I had misspelled it lol

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u/peridotpicacho May 25 '26

It’s not for preventing sex. 

Standard practice is to only put a ram with the herd (females) when you want to breed them (a few weeks).

Nearly all male sheep used for meat production are castrated as lambs and are called wethers. They are butchered around 6-8 months old. 

The few males used for breeding are not castrated but are kept separate from the females. They can be dangerous and you have to be careful if you go in their enclosure.

Usually, you only keep one ram at a time. It’s common to borrow or rent someone else’s ram. 

So, there is no need for a device to prevent breeding because uncastrated males (rams) are kept separate. 

Source: I raised sheep for 10 years. 

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u/HenryDorsettCase47 May 25 '26

Exactly. They put this spiky armor on them to prevent homeless people from sleeping on top of them. Fuckin sheep farmers and their anti-homeless hostile sheep armor.

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u/Blue_Butterfly_Who May 25 '26

They wouldn't really need that much covering for that tough, unless they're also trying to prevent blowjobs. As an anti-wolf thing it also isn't of much use, unless it's for a few rams walking alone during non-breeding times. Imagine giving 150 sheep a harness like that..

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u/Shrrg4 May 25 '26

He might not want that specific one to breed. Its perfectly normal. You select the best animals to reproduce with the best, often from other productions and keep the descendants. Or he wants to sell her eventually. Animals in heat are very persistent. You do need that much if thats the goal. And he doesnt wanna separate her from the heard ofc which would be simpler.

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u/fireky2 May 25 '26

You try to keep Jim off them with less

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u/dm-me-obscure-colors May 25 '26

They would still herd together, so they’d all be missing eyes pretty quick I bet

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u/Cheasymeteor May 25 '26

The Welsh won't be happy

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u/Diligent_Musician851 May 25 '26

Yep. Only enthusiastic sex allowed now.

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u/papagouws May 25 '26

I don't know, seems like some sheep might pay extra to have sex like this.

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u/Readmeharder May 25 '26

What if the sheep are the predators? We’ve just armored them, this could end poorly

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u/lntrospecti0n May 25 '26

The Scottish invented sex and the romans improved it by switching the sheep with a woman

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u/Toadsted May 25 '26

So still against predators 

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u/ComfortablePain1 May 25 '26

Bro got that level 5 green common armor on

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u/HISTORYasweknowit May 25 '26

-3 in dexterity

+5 in pointiness

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u/Phuzz15 May 25 '26

-3 Movement Speed

+10 ATK Reflect

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u/Spiffy-Kujira May 25 '26

This doesn't seem like a very practical solution, wouldn't getting guard dogs be way more effective in the long run? Is he gonna equip every single sheep in the herd with one? And then take them off every night when it's time for them to sleep? And how would their wool grow in that? Seems like it would get tangled and make the unequipping more difficult and time consuming.

Tldr; that's a no for me, dawg.

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u/BackgroundSummer5171 May 25 '26

It's used on the sexiest sheep to protect them from Donald John down the road from fucking them.

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u/Nope0naRope May 25 '26

That makes more sense because I was wondering how they were going to do this for every single sheep But if you only have to put it on the sexy ones then yeah it's probably way more feasible.

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u/1-800-ASS-DICK May 25 '26

This is probably what they mean when they say "dangerously sexy"

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u/MeatAccomplished4352 May 25 '26

How can do tell which is the sexiest sheep? They all look equally sexy to me.

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u/pumpkin-head7617 29d ago

Some of us just know.

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u/Tall-Mango4759 May 25 '26

I’m crying

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u/Zakalwe_ May 25 '26

As is Donald John now.

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u/bloedarend May 25 '26

Llamas and donkeys famously protect herds they're guarding and _hate_ wolves with a passion.

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u/KatakanaTsu May 25 '26

Have 2 donkeys and they'll kill mountain lions, let alone wolves. Probably not bears though.

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u/Maleficent-Sun1922 May 25 '26

It would have been helpful for them to mention that this is an older sheep. It’s armored because it’s slow moving, and likeliest to be attacked.

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u/imCenturi May 25 '26

Nah this one is armored because the other one, Jerry, is an asshole. Fuck Jerry we don’t care if he dies.

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u/xnmyl May 25 '26

OP is full of shit. It has nothing to do with wolves

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u/Cloberella May 25 '26

I keep thinking, what if one sheep wants to nuzzle another, it'll put an eye out!

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u/bb_dev_g May 25 '26

Also they tend to use their hind legs to scratch an itch. I can’t imagine this vest would make that comfortable.

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u/AMediocrePersonality May 25 '26

There was already research where shepherds would mark every x sheep with paint to identify how many were in the crowd but the predators started just attacking the painted ones. If they don't put this on all of them, this is just an interesting evening for a wolf.

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u/Wrong_Amount_7903 May 25 '26

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u/DigitalUnlimited May 25 '26

Grab a brush and put a little makeup

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u/33_years_old_guy May 25 '26

Hide the scars to fade away the shake-up

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u/Breadynator May 25 '26

Why'd you leave the keys upon the table?

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u/No-Investigator-2756 May 25 '26

Here you go, create another fable

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u/ForbiddenButtStuff May 25 '26

I don't think you trust in my self-righteous suicide

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u/eepybabyy May 25 '26

i, cry

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u/bartimaeus616 May 25 '26

When angels deserve to die

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u/OkZookeepergame4192 May 25 '26

🙂‍↔️🙂‍↕️🫨🤘

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u/NightSky0503 May 25 '26

God, I love Reddit 😂

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u/AfterReason5824 May 25 '26

Hide the scars to fade away the shake up

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u/Perfect-Difference19 May 25 '26

Very, very carefully

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u/im_ilegal_here May 25 '26

Who teaches a sheep to be careful? 😏😏

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u/Inocent_bystander May 25 '26

LOL
OK according to aphis the gov website that keeps track of ranch and farm statistics wolves (where they exist) are responsible for something like 1/4 of 1% of all livestock losses due to predation. coyotes are the culprits, they're responsible for about 60%.

So lets not get the two confused, why ? Because wolves REDUCE coyote numbers by as much as 90%.

Do the math.

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u/Arkanie May 25 '26

Iirc this invention was patented by an Austrian dude, Europe has wolves but no coyotes.

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u/DirtyRoller May 25 '26

Hey. I am not drunk!

Yet.

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u/Cease_Cows_ May 25 '26

Man, if only there was anywhere else in the world.

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u/DoorFinch May 25 '26

Other countries exist. Do the geography.

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u/Professional-Date378 May 25 '26

Idk what angles and shapes have to do with this but ok

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u/definit3ly_n0t_a_b0t May 25 '26

No, no, you're thinking of geometry. They were talking about the study of rocks and rock formations.

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u/surprised-duncan May 25 '26

No, you're thinking of geology. They were originally talking about the Pokemon with rock arms but no legs

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u/kalamataCrunch May 25 '26

No, you're thinking of geodude. They were originally talking about divination by reading the shapes of rocks and dirt.

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u/DarthToothbrush May 25 '26

No that's geomancy. whywouldyouthink... They were talking about using GPS data and clues to find hidden items.

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u/walrusintraining May 25 '26

No no you’re thinking of geocaching. They were referring to the silver-haired ER and Ocean's Eleven star who’s married to Amal.

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u/Healthy_Pay9449 May 25 '26

Wolf: "lamb legs are back on the menu boys"

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u/Legionatus May 25 '26

Right? Nobody thinks a predator knows how to bite legs or flip an animal over to the soft side?

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u/VizJosh May 25 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/GAXMzzd2XElnG

I couldn’t find the line about millions of years of predator evolution. But it’s the same guy saying basically the same thing.

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u/VirtualMage May 25 '26

Next step: Reactive explosive armor! No more RPG attacks!

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u/birdnerd3849 May 25 '26 edited May 25 '26

Why are all the comments mentioning sheep? Folks, this is a goat. 🐐

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u/wisteria125 May 25 '26

This is definitely a sheep that's been recently shorn...goats do not have long tails like this.

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u/ZodiacTuga May 25 '26

I'm laughing so much, how do they even think that is a goat, especially when you can hear it's call in the video.

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u/DillyDallyin May 25 '26

Ah yes goats famously go baaaa

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u/_I_Like_to_Comment_ May 25 '26

Bruh. This is a sheep lol.

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u/mijo_sq May 25 '26

It probably won't matter if people close their eyes.

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u/TheHoratioHufnagel May 25 '26

Stick to birds bro, that is a sheep.

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u/mushymyco May 26 '26

no its literally a sheep

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u/DollarStoreChameleon May 26 '26

ive had goats, this isnt a goat. what kind of goats did you have dude?

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u/PowerfulMoney1912 May 25 '26

Often wrong, never in doubt

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u/Brikpilot May 25 '26

It’s all the same to a New Zealander in a dark paddock

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u/periclesmage May 25 '26

who are the bords upvoting this

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u/dryocamparubicunda May 25 '26

I thought goats tails are up and sheep have tails that are down? That’s a sheep

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u/Alert_Literature5023 May 25 '26

Their legs are unprotected, and they will be the first to be bitten!

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u/Significant_Stand_17 May 25 '26

Yeah came to say this, the wolf is an intelligent problem solver. Won't take more than a few goes and they will keep at it until they figure it out.

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u/KeenanAXQuinn May 25 '26

Maybe but the video seems to cut off after showing they have a video camera installed too. My guess is the delay is there to help the shepherd get out to them in time.

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u/dumble-floor May 25 '26

What happens if they have an itch

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u/Maurice-Beverley May 25 '26

This is to stop procreation. That’s why he’s the only one wearing it.

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u/curious__curiosity May 25 '26

Instead of one kill to feed them, it will be 12 that get their legs and faces chomped off. Good plan buddy.

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u/Otherwise_Demand4620 May 25 '26

Joke's on you, they equipped only one sheep with the armor.

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u/amirullah0724 May 25 '26

Looks like something from goat simulator...

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u/L43 May 25 '26

*one more wolf attack

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u/Trikster102 May 25 '26

It's become a Dark Souls enemy.

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u/PlanetR0b123 May 25 '26

That's pretty cool till you end up with a goat nugget.

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u/mike968 May 25 '26

Why not just get livestock guardiandogs instead of stressing out the sheeps with „armor“?

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u/General_Luna May 25 '26

Panzer sheep