But the sheep won't let anyone pet it; it's too busy protecting its beautiful wool. Louie draws a very soft sheep that looks like a cloud.

Thursday, November 15, 2007 BY ROBERT STERN PRINCETON TOWNSHIP -- With passions still running high far beyond Princeton over the death sentence imposed on Congo the German shepherd for severely in juring a landscaper in June, the township yesterday became the epicenter of an unrelated violent dog attack. Thursday, November 15, 2007 BY ROBERT STERN PRINCETON TOWNSHIP -- With passions still running high far beyond Princeton over the death sentence imposed on Congo the German shepherd for...

Cochrane admitted to Kovacs that he had bought 20 lambs, but one died in transport and one died the next day, authorities said. When Cochrane found eight more lambs dead the following day, he told Kovacs, he didn't know what to do and he dumped them on the side of the road. Kovacs instructed Cochrane on proper care of the lambs and told him to bury the lamb carcasses. Kovacs went back the next day and found that conditions for the surviving lambs were still inadequate. The remaining lambs...

Flash player is required to view weather conditions. It's hard to say that any of these facts constitute the weirdest thing about a case that brought 600 people to the Clark County Courthouse the day the decision was announced and caused such deep divisions in the Pitchin and South Charleston communities that people refused to talk to those on the other side of the controversy and fights broke out in school yards along the same fault lines. It's hard to say that any of these facts...

Feeding the new industrial knitwear centres (mostly in China and Tirupur in India) are 107 million sheep in Australia, 70 per cent providing merino wool, which, with cashmere, is the yarn of choice. To counter this, the wool industry practises "surgical mulesing", cutting away an area around the sheep's backside to prevent the blowfly from laying eggs. Unfortunately, more skin also equals more fly-strike - when flies lay parasitic eggs that poison the sheep, leading to an agonising death....

The number of cases of deadly bluetongue virus on British farms has risen to 129, prompting Britain's most senior vet to warn that the industry is being "tipped over the edge" He criticised the government for failing to offer farmers compensation for animals killed by disease: "It has been a truly dire year for farming in the UK. This has meant sheep and cattle that would normally have been moved to winter pastures elsewhere have been left stranded on fields that have been grazed out...