Awwww. Sheep are so cute.

I'm baaaahing at work. BAAAAAAA!

Cute! How could it be a hoax? Like, it's really cotton balls on a model field?

Was there a piglet seen dashing around in a brown toupée shouting "Bah, Ram, Ewe"?? Please?

@lovenoelg: maybe they own a really OCD sheep dog?

@leMaldeTete: Was thinking the very same.

maybe food especially delicious to the sheep was arranged in a circle?

I just read the article and it says some guy proposed by spelling out "Will You Marry Me?" in sheep. I hate big production proposals but that would rawk.

@lovenoelg: That, or photoshop.

The Scientologists must be so excited!

@msAnthrope: Yep.

If your life was just hanging in a field eating grass you'd get bored too.

@meaghan2k: And the Welsh/Scottish/New Zealanders!

Sorry, that was mean.

@Pinkosaurus: holy crap, that would be awesome.

@leMaldeTete: To thy field thy flock be true!

@msAnthrope: Ooh, you're quick! Sounds like you could make a career out of this sheep-related hoax thing :)

@Pinkosaurus: I love sheep. If I were super-rich, I'd have a farm with some sheep. So adorable!

@DorothyZbornak: I'm also a fan of goats. Kind of got that pug thing going on, where they're so ugly they're cute.

@leMaldeTete: how many sheep would it take? would you fall aslepp answering that question because you'd be counting sheep? what?

Oh sheepies. So silly. I was floored at the mass amounts of sheepies in Ireland and I'm told it's also that way in some parts of England. The lambs were the cutest thing I've ever seen because they are hard-core into frolicking and bounding.

Perhaps they're getting ready to have a gang ba-a-a-a-a-a-ng.

I am such a dork, because I immediately thought, "That one lone animal at the top of the circle HAS to be Babe talking to them."

@mbprice: Ohhh, goats! They have the cutest, sweetest personalities ever. Well, at least the lady goats do. The males stink.

@HexaCorde: Snorfle, snark, hahahahaha.

i blame global warming and possibly the sudden deaths of honeybees for this development.

@HexaCorde: HA HA HA

Farmer Hoggett would be so proud!

@eeva:

i put birdseed outside in my yard on the ground in a heart shape and the birds and squirrels arrange themselves in that formation as they all eat. just not that tight.

@LaComtesse: Scotland, too. I visited some ancient sites that were just thronged with sheep. I had no idea they were such fans of neolithic monuments.

I wonder if they take requests. I want some sheep to spell out my name. That would be teh shit.

@mbprice: Have you ever seen those fainting goats? Those are pretty funny.

@NefariousNewt: @tellmeagain: I am such a dork for that movie. Tearing up at the antics of CGI animals is the worst!

I feel like there has to be some logical explanation for this, like some drunk farmer was out driving around in circles in his field, and there was a bag of grain in the back of his truck that was leaking. This has to be food related, as sheep think only of eating and screwing.

In a related story, I used to have a pet sheep who figured out how to open gates on our farm and let the cows out. One day she was just gone, and a few weeks later we mysteriously had lambchops in our freezer. My parents were so busted. It took me years to get over it.

@braak: Yes! Really funny.

Unrelated (except that it has to do with goats) but I went to this farm for a fall festival, and they had this contaption rigged up where you could put some corn in a cup and use a pulley to hoist it up to this platform. Then the goats would climb up on this convoluted series of wooden beams and eat from the can. Serious entertainment. My girlfriend had to literally pull me away from it because she wanted to go do the corn maze. Spoil sport.

@braak: My uncle has fainting goats! Whenever I go visit I ask to go out and freak them out. He always says yes. :)

@braak: @mbprice: The fainting goats are awesome! And yeah, if I had my little farm, I'd probably like a goat or two.

@braak: Oh my god the fainting goats! My family had a '3 G's Day' a few years ago: Geyser, Goats, Golf. We admired a natural geyser but got bored quickly so ended up hanging out by the fainting goat pen for like 40 minutes shouting and trying to get them to faint. Poor little guys... so sad yet so cute!

@mbprice: That's freaking adorable. I would not be able to leave.

@LadySkittlehattington: This is why we don't see much evolution in terms of sheep-intelligence.

The reward for being clever is that you are killed and eaten.

@leMaldeTete: I have pictures of it. But they're on facebook, and facebook is blocked at my work :(

@HexaCorde: Snort!

@mbprice: Oh, god, so-ugly-that-it's-cute is the BEST kind of cute!

@mbprice: Boo! Double-blocked by my work.

@mbprice:

lol i think you can pretty much get any creature, including humans, to do anything for a favorite reward. the sheep circle reminded me of people camping overnight in front of apple stores.

Well... I mean, sheep are metaphors for a reason... :)

Even the sheep are for Obama? Sigh.

@AnnoyingFemaleLeadVoiceover: It wouldn't be too much of a stretch to call all Obama followers sheep ;-)

I kid! I kid! Total joke. I love all of you and non-sarcastically believe you vote for candidates based on the issues that matter most to you.

It's only the lead sheep that gets the new view. Except, of course, if it's a circle then there's no lead sheep.

TGY, Merrill Lynch is Sheepish on America

I have to pretend like they're something else when I eat the babies. Cute but dumb.

the animals scattered like a group of naughty schoolboys

Awwwwwwwww!

@Pinkosaurus: I really love sheep. And goats. And cows, come to think of it. Sheep and cows are so mellow; they have a nice vibe. While goats are silly and mischievous.

@Trixie from Toronto: I love goats. They are so cute! I can't bring myself to eat them. (And yes, we have had goat in my household).

Sheep like to pass the dutchie pon the left hand side too.

@so5minutesago: Brilliant.

Is it bad that this pic made me remember just how much I hated the ending of Signs.

@DorothyZbornak: Have you read the book Three Bags Full? It's a mystery with sheep as the detectives. Highly recommended for all sheep fans.

Maybe the sheep are evolving and arranged themselves. They're conspiring. That's the most frightening possibility.