This is adorable. I like the attention to detail with the eyes and TF into ungulates is always fun.

Now little goats can hitch a ride on you

Welcome to the fold!

I love the detail, here. Not many go for ovine eyes and teeth!

Thank you. I decided to go full sheep because of the positive experiences I have had with ovines, mostly goats in fact, aat a local livestock show I've attended two years running.

I first experienced the dental pad when a golden guernsey goat graciously assented to sniff my outstretched hand and then nibble on my fingers, and I came away with real goat saliva on my fingers, so I vowed never to wash my right hand again to preserve this pristine essence.

I also saw a little Soay ram being brushed and he snorted, tossed his head and stomped his hooves, but being so small he couldn't stop the brushing. And a large dairy alpine type doe, I crouched down on the ground so that my head was lower than hers, and she lowered her head down to sniff at my face and I could feel the warm and slightly damp exhalations from her lungs: a goat breathed! on! me!

And, I stopped at a pen of ewes, and I poked one of them who approached me and my finger just vanished deep into the fleece. She closed her eyes and was very happy as I scratched behind her ears and on her cheeks. I also watched a sheep being sheered on stage, and wool fell off of it onto the ground and I was able to grab a handful of wool, which I keep today in a little stationary bag, just to admire and touch sometimes.

Fennecs are OK, but from watching youtube videos of them they are a bit hyper and screamy, whereas sheep are calmer, and have such a long association with humanity (cf. Gilgamesh 'Uruk-the-sheep-fold') and we are more like them than we admit I think, that it would only be natural and fitting to be a sheep and also to admire ruminants and foregut-fermenters

I also live in an area of England where I can walk, or hop on my bike, and with 1/2 an hour be in the presence of fields of sheep, and there are at least three goats in the local area too, and there is something nice about having a creature you can see easily enough as a fursona.

You've had such great experiences with caprids! The story about the Soay especially sounds like it was adorable to watch. <3 I go to my state fair every spring and fall for the same reason; sheep, goats, llamas, alpacas, a camel or two... the place is just full of ungulates! In the petting zoo area, I'd kneel down and a bunch of ewes and goats would come up to greet me with sniffs and nibbles.

I also lived in a semi-rural part of the UK for a great number of years. I lived on a farmhouse estate, where the barn had been refurbished into a one-bedroom house. I basically slept in what had been the hayloft.

Not 3 meters from my barn was the neighbor's sheepfold. Every morning, I'd open my window to see the sheep grazing and I'd do my best impression of a lowing bleat. They started looking up and responding in kind.

One morning, I had forgot to do it. Shortly before noon, I started noticing that it was very noisy outside. When I took off my headphones, I heard a bunch of panicked bleating. I quickly rushed to my window and went 'baaa! baaa!!' to the small herd of concerned sheep that had flocked against the fence as close as they could to my barn. They bleated a number of happy responses before dispersing about the field again, knowing their fellow was safe and sound.

Less than a month after I moved to the US, away from my barn and my herd, I became a sheep.

I agree with you completely on the calm natures of sheep and the similarities between humanity and sheepkind. Sheep are also a very universal species! I can hardly think of a culture that hasn't had a long history with sheep.

Sorry for the deep necropost, lmao.

I found this somehow just now and, I'm gonna be honest, this mirrors my experience a lot. I converted from fox to sheep much like yourself for a lot of the same reasons - and "that it would only be natural and fitting to be a sheep" is very very true. I think more people should be sheep. :)

I especially like the attention to anatomical detail regarding the eyes and teeth.

I'm very lucky that my parents have some pet sheep that I can talk to, pat and feed, whenever I visit. They all have such different personalities and quirks that I can tell em apart even though they look very similar. I trained them to be comfortable around people as they weren't when we first got them - it took a lot of daily interaction and treats..

I live in New Zealand, so there are a LOT of sheep and NO foxes - the choice was pretty obvious once I embraced the change.

baa baa?