Missing Willow Farm

Zeus and his sister Xena make up half of our livestock guardian force.  He’s a great pyrenees who came from the same Tennessee Fainting Goat farm that our Karakachans came from.  He’s got a thyroid problem that keeps him from being as fast as I’m sure he once was but that doesn’t keep him from doing his job.  He’s the sentry and his sister Xena is the muscle.  They make an awesome pair.  We’ve had them for 3 years now.  We drove 4.5 hours to pick them up in Tennessee.  When we got them home we put them up in our small barn, behind a metal barricade.  Less than an our later, our first three sheep were delivered by our friend C, who brought one of his champion herding dogs with him.  C let the sheep out of the trailer and then asked his herding dog to move them into our pasture.  Zeus and Xena heard the sheep and came bounding out of the barn and before we could blink, the champion herding dog was pinned under the sheep trailer.  My first thought was great… our dogs that we’ve owned for a few hours just killed an incredibly expensive border collie.  Thankfully, he wasn’t injured and C was extremely nice about it.  He told us we had some great guardian dogs, and he was right!