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i have thought of having a cute little lambakin, all soft and fluffy, on hand, to manage my lawn.Helen, the twubble with cutesy widdle wambies is that they grow up into bloody great big sheep. With minds (if you can call them that, and I don't) of their own. Especially if they are on their own. I know sheep don't look very big in pictures, but you just try picking a fly-blown pregnant ewe up to put it on a ATV trailer or try dragging one out of a shearing shed pen onto the board to give it a No. 2 all over ... no fun at all after the first couple in either case. You therefore do have to consider the management issues arising from having one on your back lawn! 
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If you really want a beastling to take care of your mowing you shoud try a goat Helen. One of those miniature thingies that don't grow more'n a foot high. They are apparently quite docile and love to chomp on overgrown grass. The only thing you might have to worry about is that old "what goes in must come out" scenario. Personally, I'd stick to an electric mower. Oh, and um, what is it about sheep and Welshmen??? I've never heard anything. 
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I have visions of several kids tethered in the back yard. Make it hard for them to play tag, and I don't think C hildP rotectiveS ervices would let you get away with it for long  .
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Oh, and um, what is it about sheep and Welshmen??? I've never heard anything.It's just an old yarn, m'dear - the sheep learnt their lies from the Kiwis! and if you were a sheep, wouldn't *you look scared when you saw a lawyer advancing on you, waving a writ of Habeaas Corpus?
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that old "what goes in must come out" scenario [...] stick to an electric mower.Yeah - that describes it pretty well!
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...what is it about sheep and Welshmen???
Yes, i am wondering too.. i've always heard that scotland was were the women were strong, the men good looking and the sheep all terrified..
i thought welsh men just mined coal and sang in harmony..not that there is any thing wrong with that!
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Helen, according to folksinger U. Utah Phillip, you are talking about The Great State of Utah, where the men are men and the sheep are nervous. re which (with apologies for an unfortunate term necessary for the rhyme): Brigham Young never was neuter,
Reluctant, a fraud or a fruiter.
Where ten thousand virgins
Succumbed to his urgin's
We now have The Great State of Utah."[giving new meaning to the phrase "the father of his country"] [the last point making this post word-related ]
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