[GZG] Extreme Shepherding

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2FX9rviEhw

Indy posted this the 23rd.

I gather there's massive scepticism on You Tube, though much can be explained
by the use of time lapse photography. What's your feeling?

The_Beast

Zoe Brain wrote on 04/07/2009 11:02:31 AM:

> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2FX9rviEhw

> On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Doug Evans <devans@nebraska.edu> wrote:

There's massive skepticism about *everything* on YouTube, including cute cat
videos. YouTube comments are a cesspit of purest stupid, I feel braincells die
everytime I make the mistake of reading them.

I'd say lots of timelapse photography and video editing - and probably
a whole bunch of takes - covers the Extreme Shepherding vid. I've
watched a few shepherds around here with a dog or two who can do incredible
things with them. The lights are just an added does of cool!

> Indy posted this the 23rd.

(Trying to look innocent) Why do you assume us Aussies know everything about
sheep?

A similar topic news story that's been getting quite a lot of coverage:

http://www.watoday.com.au/world/running-of-the-sheep-20090405-9syz.html

<Kosh> And so it begins ... </Kosh>

cheers,

> On Apr 7, 2009, at 2:47 PM, Brian Burger wrote:

> There's massive skepticism about *everything* on YouTube, including

Read This Comic:
http://xkcd.com/481/

And, life imitates art once again. YouTube promptly added an audio preview to
text comments. So far, it hasn't helped.

> Doug Evans wrote:
Nobody who's witnessed a sheep dog trial would have any difficulty believing
it. Of course 1 hour's worth of shepherding might be collapsed

into 5-10 seconds due to the time=lapse photography, but there's nothing

there that couldn't be done with a good set of border collies. Much more

difficult things are done in every sheep dog trial, where no verbal