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Like many herding breeds, the Puli shines when tending to his flock of sheep. His superb agility, elastic movement (call him the “rubber band dog”) and dazzling footwork are accentuated by a flying coat which in working Pulik was either shorn with the sheep or chewed off when brambles or branches got caught in it.
It is the stuff of legends, but more than one Puli owner has witnessed a Puli getting from one side of a flock to the other by running across the backs of the sheep. They’ve even stopped a runaway ram by jumping on its back, clinging to it and riding the critter until s/he tires, slows down, and can be herded back to the flock (the dog, not the owner).
As we said, the Puli isn’t the only herding dog to do this. Wait, you find the prospect of a dog running across the backs of sheep improbable? Check this out:
We believe the dog is “Nana,” either a Kelpie, or as one site suggestion, a very short haired Border Collie. Like wow.
Image by noted artist, Edwin Megargee from a 1958 book by the National Geographic Society.
I think the video was from Australia and Nan is a Kelpie. If you freeze a frame when she is coming back you can see she is black and tan.
We’ve amended the post to reflect the possibility that she’s a Kelpie, Linda, which is what we thought she was at first, as well, but in digging into the video, we came across a couple of sites which claimed to “know” that she is a very short haired Border Collie. Shoulder shrug, she’s amazing either way.