牧羊犬帮主人驅趕羊群出拚“春天”字樣(图)

[color=#ff0000][size=4]牧羊犬帮主人驅趕羊群出拚“春天”字樣(图) [/size]

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[align=center][font=宋体][size=10pt][size=3][b]羊群拼出了英文“春天”（Spring）的字样。[/b][/size][/size][/font][/align][size=3][/size]
[size=3][b]英国德文郡农夫戴维·肯纳德在3只牧羊犬的帮助下，日前成功地让他的羊群在山坡草地上拼出了英语“春天”(Spring)的字样。 [/b][/size]
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[size=3][b]据戴维称，这个由羊群组成的“春天”单词花了整整3个小时才制造完成，为了让羊群能够安分守己地停留在自己的位置上，他在它们该呆的地方都撒上了一些饲料。戴维说：“我为我的狗感到骄傲，如果我没有在山坡上撒饲料，它们很难让这些羊群组成这个单词；但如果没有它们的帮助，我也绝不可能令羊群做到这一点。” [/b][/size]
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[size=3][b]据悉，从10年前开始，戴维就经常为他的牧羊犬拍摄DVD录像，他还撰写了一本关于牧羊犬的书《一只牧羊犬的守护》，戴维在一部电视电影中跟踪拍摄了牧羊犬米斯特从幼崽到成年犬的整个过程，这部影片非常成功，牧羊犬米斯特的故事已经成了英国第五频道电视台的儿童系列节目。戴维将自己拍摄的DVD先是摆到当地农夫市场的摊位上进行销售，没想到这些DVD后来竟在全世界范围内售出了8万张。 [/b][/size]

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[size=3][b]杨 宗 2008年03月24日08:53 　 [/b][/size][url=http://www.xhby.net/][size=3][color=#000000][b]新华报业网—扬子晚报[/b][/color][/size][/url][/size]

[b][color=#ff0000]It may be a White Easter, but these dogs know how to make their sheep say 'spring'
[/color][/b]Last updated at 14:35pm on 22nd March 2008

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Sheepdogs are trained to obey their master's every word. So when farmer David Kennard decided one of those words would be "Spring", his dogs did not hesitate.

They rounded up the flock on the hills of Mr Kennard's north Devon farm and, with a little help from their master, created a picture that reminds us that, whatever the weather, this is officially the first weekend of Spring.

The scene did call for a careful scattering of feed to make the sheep form themselves in the shapes of the six letters.

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[b][color=dimgray]It may be snowing elsewhere in Britain, but if these sheep say it's spring, it's spring
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However, it was down to the team of Collies – who everyone knows border on the brilliant – to have the last word. They circled the 200-strong flock and kept them from wandering off-message.

Three of David's five working dogs – Mist, Fern and Jake – were employed to help create the perfect lettering, which took three hours to achieve.

Said David yesterday: "I'm proud of my dogs. They couldn't have done it without my spreading the feed across the hillside, of course – but I couldn't have done it without them, either."

But then David's Border Collies are very much of the performing breed. They have appeared on DVDs and on TV in films made by the 41-year-old farmer.

He originally started making videos of his hard-working hands ten years ago to supplement earnings at his 400-acre farm near Woolacombe. He then wrote a top-ten best-selling book, A Shepherd's Watch.

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[b][color=dimgray]The sheep were herded into position by the faithful - and now famous - sheepdogs[/color][/b]

That led to a TV film which followed the progress of one particular dog, Mist, from puppyhood to full-grown sheepdog. Other starring roles were taken by Mist's mother Gail, grandparents Greg and Swift and fellow four-legged family members Ernie, Fern and Jake.

The film proved so successful that Mist's adventures were turned into a channel Five children's TV series with the voices of Derek Jacobi, Brian Blessed and Sandra Dickinson.

"It all started when I noticed people leaning over the walls of my fields to watch my sheepdogs at work," David said. "I realised my dogs were my greatest asset and that if One Man and His Dog was so popular, I ought to give it a go."

David placed his first video on local farmers' market stalls – but it ended up selling 80,000 copies worldwide. His TV series, Mist: Sheepdog Tales, returns with a new series on Five next month (April 12), along with a newly-released DVD (April 14) of the entire first series.

As well as going above the call of duty to earn their keep, David's dogs are very much part of the family, sharing kitchen space with his wife Debbie and their three children.

But when it came to getting sheep to put a spring in their step, they proved they could conjure up a bright spell, whatever the Easter weather.
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蘋果日報
2008-03-23
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[size=3][color=navy]春 天 來 了 ！ 上 周 四 是 春 分 ， 英 國 德 文 郡 農 夫 肯 納 德 （ David Kennard ） ， 細 心 將 飼 料 撒 好 ， 然 後 派 三 頭 牧 羊 犬 趕 200 隻 羊 ， 花 了 三 句 鐘 砌 成 「 spring 」 （ 春 天 ） 這 個 字 。
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