27 August

Fate Alone: A Tough Herding Puzzle

by Jon Katz
Herding Puzzle
Herding Puzzle

Fate spent another hour or so along with the sheep in the pasture this morning, I went out to check on her, and she seemed stumped. Sometimes the sheep hide next to the horses and donkeys, it’s a way they have of avoiding Red, or trying to. Red doesn’t put up with it, he marches right into the pack and moves them out, Fate wasn’t so sure.

She studies the situation for a while, peering through the legs of the ponies and the donkeys, then she ran around to the left and came in from the other side. A good solution. She is enjoying her time in the pasture, I think. It is good to let her solve some problems by herself.

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