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...want to plunge into the crowds of admirers and worshipers. Says Carlo Cardinal Confalonieri, the dean of the College of Cardinals: "The good shepherd offers his life for his sheep. Because of this, the shepherd will not detach himself from them. It would imply that he is abandoning his flock...
...just any sheep dog will do. Such familiar breeds as the collie and German shepherd are herding dogs. They will drive a flock from place to place and keep sheep from straying. But such dogs need constant supervision. What is required is a different kind of canine, guarding dogs that will patiently watch over a flock for weeks at a time, even in a lonely pasture. A rancher need only appear occasionally to leave food. Usually large (up to 135 lbs.) and slow to anger, the animals stir to action only when their charges are threatened. They live with...
...been raising Komondors and Great Pyrenees at the U.S. Sheep Experiment Station at Dubois, Idaho. He adds: "These dogs are three times as big as coyotes. One on one, the dog always wins. But usually the coyote just turns tail. Many won't even approach the flock because of the dog's scent...
...traffic, electric wires or misplaced M-44s. Some dogs are naturally boisterous and need special handling; a few have turned out to be sheep killers. To work properly, guarding dogs must be introduced to sheep as pups so that by maturity they are totally at ease with the flock-and vice versa. When a predator approaches, the sheep tend to converge behind the dog. "They recognize him as a security blanket," says Zoologist Jack McGrew of Colorado State University, where Komondors have been tested for three years. Ewes in labor sometimes seek out the protection of the dog. Usually this...
...wounded in any vital organs, so the gravity seems to have waned." Only then did the crowd begin to disperse. By nightfall the lone remaining signs of its presence were gifts left by sorrowing pilgrims on the empty gilt chair from which John Paul would have addressed his flock: flowers, embroidery, a portrait of the Black Madonna of Czestochowa placed there by the Poles...