With all due respect

[altivo]

(or something like that)

If you've ever seen the 1997 Dreamworks film Mouse Hunt, with that hilarious opening that takes place at a funeral, and things go downhill, or rather down the sewer, from there

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[doco]

Having just returned from visiting my laid out father at the funeral home (who, ironically, died with an overinflated belly, even though he's nowhere close to a ruminant), that little story about poor Shaun made me chuckle. Thank you. :)

[altivo]

*eeps* Thank goodness it didn't hit you the wrong way.

[dakhun]

That was a very poignant and moving funeral service.

poignant:
1. pungently pervasive [LOL]
2. deeply affecting

[altivo]

Perhaps owing to the cold, the pungency was limited to that few seconds of post-mortem flatulence. Of course, we have the spring thaw to come. Hopefully we'll have him buried deeply enough by then that it won't matter.

[avon_deer]

Poor thing. Though I am glad you are able to have a little giggle.

[altivo]

Yep. Shaun had a good life, one that lasted quite a bit longer than if he'd been in a commercial sheep flock certainly. He'd have been dog food years ago in that case. Being able to laugh about the aftermath does make things easier.

[linnaeus]

Interesting. I'd think that scavengers would be a concern, but I guess the aroma of the compost would be enough to conceal any smells that might attract local coyotes or the like. Anyway, sorry to hear you lost him, though it sounds like he had a good full life, for a sheep.

[altivo]

Scavengers are of some concern, though we have yet to find evidence of coyotes on our own land. Loose dogs are the more likely culprits, and they will certainly dig for something smelly. The thought of some of the neighbors' more obnoxious wandering mutts carrying back a ripe foot or ear to offend their owners, though, is so pricelessly funny that it doesn't bother me much. I think, though, that we have him buried deeply enough. By the time things thaw, it will be deeper still.

[hellmutt]

*notes sheep names* You and your puns. :)

[altivo]

Unmentioned above: Ewe-dora, Ewe-genia, DodgeRam, Bah-Bah Louie, and Wetherby. Ewe-dora was not bright, and died young by strangling herself in a fence. The others are all with us. Wetherby is the youngest at one year next month or so.

[hellmutt]

Beware the Finnish flock, my son,
The coats that curl, the names that catch.

[altivo]

Beware the ewesome crew and shun
The quarrelsome wether batch.