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My name's Alison, and I live in a small village
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of Adderley where I run a small farm shop
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called "Adderley wool farm shop".
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This is Jack the lamb, he's a 6-month-old lamb
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who is my new sheepdog.
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Jack and Jessie are really good friends.
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and they've been together since Jack was 2 days old.
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Jack walked up to the house 1 day and just lay down with the dog.
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And ever since then they've been inseparable.
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He goes out into the field with Jessie and when Jessie's rounding up the sheep.
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Jack also will try and round the sheep up with him.
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And he is getting quite good at it now.
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He brings the sheep back to the shed where they all sleep at night,
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and then he comes back up to the porch and sleeps with the dog.
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We're all in the process of teaching Jack a few tricks.
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that the dog can do, like shaking hands and sitting
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and my daughter is trying to get him to roll over.
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When I take Jess and Jack out for a walk along the Shrops union canal,
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and I pick up a stick and throw it for Jessie,
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following Jessie, Jack will chase after the stick.
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and on occasions Jack's managed to get there before Jessie
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and has brought the stick back.
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So we're really pleased and it's something that Jack's learned
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over the last couple of weeks.
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Jack's a very friendly sheep.
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A little bit mischievous at times,
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will steal Jessie's stick and run off and hide it.
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But on the whole he's quite a sociable little chap
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and he loves the people that go by on the canal.
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The people in the barges on their holidays.
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Jack's a very affectionate lamb and he loves to have the top of his head scratched.
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between his ears, and I find that it makes him go to sleep eventually.
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Eventually I'd like to see Jack return to the flock
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and hopefully he would be an attraction for my small farm shop that we run here
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But he won't end up like the rest of our lambs,
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which unfortunately they end up as meat in the shop.
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So hopefully he'll just remain a pet and part of the family for the rest of his life.