Our Escapee

Juanita Deer, we call her Deer,

 has found several holes in our fences that she will either crawl under or jump through.  Blackwell either likes the safety of being with the larger animals or doesn’t have Deer’s sense of adventure.  Deer loves eating baby tumble weeds we have growing along our driveway but will not wander too far from Blackwell.  Every morning and evening we try to put a lead rope halter on the sheep and lead them from the enclosure to the pasture and back.  Blackwell seems to enjoy walking next to us on the lead.  If we get Deer on the rope she fights and frets walks on her knees and is a royal pain.  2 days ago I decided to just let her follow us and see what would happen.  Blackwell leans her head against us to have behind her ears scratched while we walk and Deer happily munches away and scampers around us.  The problem is with Blackwell she also head-butts you  if she is unhappy with you.  So far I have not found a way to tell if she is going to lean her head against you for a scratch or going to but you.