<![CDATA[Jezebel: sheep]]> http://tags.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/jezebel.com.png <![CDATA[Jezebel: sheep]]> http://jezebel.com/tag/sheep http://jezebel.com/tag/sheep <![CDATA[Shear, And Shear Alike]]>

[Uralla, Australia; October 19. Image via Getty]

URALLA, AUSTRALIA - OCTOBER 19: Rouseabout Reanne Brown rolls a fleece on the table during spring shearing at Cherry Hill Pastoral Company property on October 19, 2009 in Uralla, Australia. Shearing in Australia is undertaken once a year and consists of shearing a sheep, throwing the shorn fleece on a table where it is skirted and rolled before being classed, sorted and pressed. (Photo by Mark Kolbe/Getty Images)
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<![CDATA[Happy Hump Day]]>

[Lairg, U.K, August 12. Image via Getty]

LAIRG, UNITED KINGDOM - AUGUST 12: Lambs for sale at Lairg's great annual sale on August 12, 2009 in Lairg, Scotland. Lairg market hosts the annual lamb sale, which is the biggest one-day livestock market in Europe, when sheep from all over the north of Scotland are bought and sold. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)
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<![CDATA[Insult To Injury]]> If you want to see young children attempt to ride terrified sheep around a ring, then get thrown off, giddy-up. Oh yeah, it's called "mutton busting." [YouTube via BuzzFeed]

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<![CDATA[A Wedding Gown For The Birds • New Moms Using HIV Drug To Stop Lactating]]> • If you're getting married and have a spare $1.5 million, why not walk down this aisle in this wedding dress made with peacock tail feathers? •

• Cabergoline, a drug that makes women stop producing breast milk, is usually prescribed to women with HIV, but now, women are reportedly taking it for "social reasons" like wanting to return to work or not wanting the shape of their breasts to change. • A Toronto judge has ruled that a mother is using her breastfeeding schedule to keep the father of her 29-month-old daughter from seeing his child. The father says if the mother used a breast pump and gave him milk, he'd be willing to keep up with the feeding schedule. • A British sheep named Dolly has given birth to sextuplets. Sheep usually give birth to only two or three lambs at a time. Now Dolly's owners are hand-feeding the lambs because she doesn't have enough teats for all six. • China has moved the last six pandas still living in the Wolong Panda Breeding Center to another breeding facility. The preserve was badly damaged in last year's earthquake. • This Japanese potty training video shows a talking animated toilet bowl and dancing poop and pee with faces. • Residents in Melbourne, Florida are complaining because a church is holding a three-week program of "Great Sex For You" sermons in the auditorium of the local elementary school. • Voters in the Appenzell Inner Rhodes region of the Swiss Alps voted to ban naked hiking after dozens of German nudists started hiking through the region. Violators will be fined. • Eight-year-old Texas girl, Emma Hicks, steered her grandmother's SUV off the road after her grandmother had a seizure, saving both of their lives. • New U.S. Census data shows that in 2007 black college graduates made only 78 percent of the salary for comparably educated whites, which is the biggest disparity in pay between whites and blacks since 2001. • A grand jury has indicted two New York City police officers for allegedly raping a woman after they escorted her from a taxicab to her apartment while she was drunk. • New research shows children who are firstborn, breech or whose mothers are 35 or older have a significantly greater risk of having autism. • A British woman has been locked up until May 5 for violating a court order prohibiting her from having noisy sex. • Researchers have identified an area of the human genome that may contribute to the development of pelvic floor disorders like pelvic organ prolapse and stress urinary incontinence, which will affect one-third of all U.S. women at some point in their lives. • Drinking diet soda may reduce the risk of forming kidney stones. Researchers found the citrate and malate content in many diet sodas may be enough to inhibit the development of calcium stones. • Cosmopolitan's new executive editor Nicole Beland has enraged Catholic League president William Donohue by writing about a sexually repressed woman, "It's not easy to undo damage caused by years of exposure to Catholic-school nuns or overly conservative parents." Donohue says, "It would never occur to Beland that a woman who is sexually repressed might have been molested growing up ... No, for Beland it is empirically obvious that Sister Mary Alice did it." Really? That's the most offensive thing he found in Cosmo? •

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<![CDATA[Woman Tattoos Her One Night Stand • Today's Ann Curry To Interview Octuplets' Mom]]> • A British man is pressing charges against a awoman after waking up after a one night stand with home-carved tattoos. Wayne Robinson said: "I look like something out of 'Prison Break.'" •

• A convenience store in Britain has issued an apology after a customer found used condoms in the cardboard packaging of a four-pack of beer. • Scientists have created a "living doll" made of human cancer cells, which they believe may be useful in the testing of new treatments. The neon-green, human-shaped doll is made up of 100,000 "beads" of connective protein. • Skate Canada is trying out a new marketing campaign designed to highlight the more "rough and tumble" aspects of figure skating in order to make it seem "more manly." Good luck with that! • A new study shows that although African Americans are aware of the benefits of the HPV vaccine, only 24% of eligible black female adolescents have received the shots. • In what has got to be one of the tackiest breakups since the (fictional) SATC Post-It message, a British man recently used Facebook updates to inform his wife that he was leaving her. Sensitivity: ur doin it wrong. • Today, the BBC features an article on the history of women serving in the military, in honor of the WRAC's 60th Birthday. Since the beginning, recruitment campaigns have stressed the importance of retaining femininity while serving in the armed forces. • A study performed on mice has found that the childhood environment of the mother can effect the development of memory in her offspring. Previous research in "mouse models" has also shown that mothers with an enriched environment while pregnant are more likely to give birth to intelligent babies. • Osama bin Laden has been rejected from the "best job in the world" (looking after Australia's tropical Hamilton Island). Apparently, a video of bin Laden speaking was given subtitles in which he describes himself as "outgoing," "familiar with sandy areas" and experienced with "large scale event coordination." No word yet on whether my application has been accepted. • New research suggests that part of the reason teens are such brats is because they'e simply unable to see any point of view other than their own due to underdeveloped brains. • A group of American female badminton players were denied visas after being invited to participate in a tournament in Iran. • Nadya Suleman, the suddenly-famous mother of octuplets, has been discharged from the hospital. Suleman has also chosen NBC's Ann Curry (ugh) to tell her story. She can look forward to an interview filled with non-questions and vague rambling! • The 14-year-old former "wife" of polygamist leader Warren Jeffs has been receiving instructions to "stay angry" and to "keep crying, pout, sleep in." • Alexandra Vdovina, a 92-year-old Russian woman, lost her savings and her sheep after being slapped with a huge fine for an accident caused by one of her sheep wandering into the road. Francis Monkman, a British composer and musician, has offered to pay the fine, and provide her enough money to purchase some new livestock. • Former Giants slugger Barry Bonds has been accused of using steroids during the 2003 baseball season. Federal prosecutors say that Bonds was also taking a female fertility drug to mask the evidence of the 'roids. • An Australian cow that was struck by lightning has miraculously survived, and is already back out roaming the fields. • A 68-year-old woman in South Korea has failed her driving test 771 times. Surprisingly, it is not the actual driving portion she finds difficult, but the written part of the exam. • A teenage boy from outside Milwaukee has been accused of tricking at least 31 male classmates into sending him nude pictures, and then using the photos as blackmail to pressure them into sex. • Two women were arrested for kissing in a mall. The lesbian couple now faces charges that range from trespassing to assaulting an officer. • A 60-year-old Canadian woman has given birth to twins after going to India for fertility treatments. • An Austrian insurance company is facing charges of discrimination after refusing to hire people because of their astrological signs.

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<![CDATA[Baa Baa Brrrrrr Sheep]]>

[Wells, England; January 2. Image via Getty]

WELLS, UNITED KINGDOM - JANUARY 02: Sheep try to keep warm as the sun begins to rise near Wells as the recent cold weather continues on January 2 2009 in Wells, England. According to the Met Office temperatures are set to fall as low -9C this weekend, giving many parts of the UK the coldest nights since the current freezing snap began. Forecasters have warned that there will difficult conditions for Monday when snow and ice will cause chaos for millions of Britons returning to work as the cold snap continues well into next week. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

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<![CDATA[Random Acts Of Cuteness]]> Sheepwalking! [Telegraph]

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<![CDATA[Elijah Wood: Feeling Sheepish]]>

[Beverly Hills, July 19. Image via Splash.]

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<![CDATA[ For those of you awfully concerned about...]]> For those of you awfully concerned about the fate of Madonna's sheep, Sheep! magazine editor Nathan Griffith wants you to know: "Dyeing sheep is certainly no more harmful to the sheep than a person dyeing their hair. And the sheep's ability to process poison is uncanny - the only exception is copper, which affects them as arsenic affects us. And molybdenum, which is a very rare metal." Phew! We'll sure be sleeping easier tonight! [Guardian]

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<![CDATA[ Madonna is thisclose to becoming the next...]]> Madonna is thisclose to becoming the next Anna Wintour, at least in the eyes of animal-rights activists. The pop star and friend of vegan Stella McCartney dyed the sheep at her English estate an array of hues, the better to art direct them for a shoot for Vogue. Says an RSPCA spokesman: "It sends out the wrong message about how to use animals." We sorta can't help but have images of Ingrid Newkirk going a little crazy with the Manic Panic on an unsuspecting Madonna. [Sun UK]

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