Animal friends: Annabelle the sheep and Boomer the dog play a rousing game of chase

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We can’t get enough of friendships between animals of different species, whether it’s a dolphin and a dog, a deer and a cat or a puppy and a duckling. One of the sweetest examples of inter-species friendship we’ve seen yet is the one between a ewe named Annabelle and a dog named Boomer.

Despite the fact that she’s an adult sheep, Annabelle is ‘still a lamb who thinks she’s a dog,’ explains owner Suzanne McMinn, who writes a blog called Chickens in the Road about her experiences living among sheep, goats, cows, miniature donkeys, dogs and other animals on a farm in West Virginia.

Annabelle doesn’t have many friends among her fellow sheep, but she loves both people and dogs. ‘You can’t walk into the pasture without her bouncing right over to you, following you around,’ McMinn writes. ‘You might even call her obnoxious occasionally, like when she almost knocks you down -- except that she’s so sweet and cute.’

Cute she definitely is, especially when she’s hopping around like mad, chasing Boomer around a pasture -- and Boomer seems to be having a great time too.

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-- Lindsay Barnett

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