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Yes, You Are Watching a Rabbit Successfully Herd Sheep Like a Dog

Animal lovers fell in love with the movie Babe in 1995 when the little pig succeeded — at least in cinema — to do the duty of its fellow sheep dogs in herding the flocks.

Bunny in Sweden Herds Sheep Like

Now, a dwarf rabbit named Champis has quickly become a viral sensation on YouTube with a similar herding skill. Watch the bunny as it works the flock like a pro sheep dog:

Notice how the actual sheep dog hangs back and lets the rabbit do all the work. io9 reports that Champis lives near Käl in Sweden and also points out that in creating an indispensable role for itself on the farm, Champis avoids becoming tonight’s dinner.

Bunny in Sweden Herds Sheep Like

Posted less than a week ago, the YouTube video now has more than 100,000 views.

Comments (125)

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  • Ron de Weijze
    Posted on January 31, 2012 at 7:12am

    He even mimics the dog’s posture at 4:11
    https://plus.google.com/u/0/100103896347802831720/posts/6wQeJJiKS2P

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  • bigdaddyt46
    Posted on January 31, 2012 at 6:59am

    am i the only one who saw the comparison between the sheep dog, and OWS???

    you know hold back, and let someone else do the work???

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    • SoupSandwich
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 10:12am

      Nah, but the fact that that bunny did more work than 99% of the dirty “99%” in the last fiscal year was not lost on me.

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  • Jennifer_D
    Posted on January 31, 2012 at 6:59am

    That’ll do bunny; that’ll do! Adorable story!

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  • scrapadapolis
    Posted on January 31, 2012 at 6:16am

    The first thought that came to me was a hindu sheep hearder was killed and became a sheep dog then the dog died and became a rabbit with old habbits..This was too cool..

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  • nomark
    Posted on January 31, 2012 at 5:58am

    Sleeping Americans are to sheep, as the media is to the rabbit.

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  • Temporal
    Posted on January 31, 2012 at 5:54am

    “Well, that’s no ordinary rabbit….” Monty Python

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  • hillbillyinny
    Posted on January 31, 2012 at 5:28am

    I care for ~540 sheep with the help of wonderful working Border Collies which I own, train and breed. This lIttle guy is enjoying himself and even defends himself when the sheep challenge him.

    This is a fun view!

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    • GeneTracy
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 8:55am

      Border collies are one of the smartest breed of dogs in the world.Now we have what,a Border Bunny?

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    • ddkites
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 12:20pm

      Love it!

      Yes, I have a Border Collie & she is too smart for her own good. I put a book on my chair to keep her out of it overnight, but when I got up this morning it was on the floor in front of my chair. Guess where this smart “Sheep Dog” slept last night?!?! Maybe I should get me a Sheep Rabbit! :-)

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    • Cat
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 12:53pm

      DD >

      Funny

      Had a Border Collie that loved to sleep on the waterbed, but knew it was forbidden
      When she’d hear the front door open, she’d slink off the bed and lay on the floor, pretending she was there all along
      Unfortunately she didn’t know that wave action takes awhile to settle down and never figured how we knew

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  • Wat Tyler
    Posted on January 31, 2012 at 3:26am

    Too cute for words!!!

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    • Gonzo
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 10:59am

      Silly rabbit, sheep are for dogs.

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  • newdaysos
    Posted on January 31, 2012 at 2:50am

    Oh my goodness, I am sending this to everyone who ever gave me with that “uhm, oookaay” look when I told them that my rabbit used to herd our chickens! The roosters used to challenge him just like a couple of the sheep did, but he would have none of that! Maybe now someone will believe me.

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    • riseandshine
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 3:00am

      lol…right on

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    • Canuck GB Fan
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 12:54pm

      Adorable! We had a lopeared bunny who would come running when we called her and would go after birds that landed in ‘her’ backyard ! R.I.P. Hiphop :)

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    • newdaysos
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 3:36pm

      We also had farm animals that would come when we called their names. I get a different kind of look when I tell my mobile butcher stories.

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  • Ron_WA
    Posted on January 31, 2012 at 2:40am

    & one wonders how liberals are so easily hearded & influenced …

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    • riseandshine
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 2:54am

      Righties too.

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    • TomFerrari
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 6:23am

      Actually, no, it’s just the socialist lefties.
      There may be 20 or 30 on the right. But that’s it.
      We ARM THEM with KNOWLEDGE and advise them to RESEARCH THE FACTS to FIND THE TRUTH to go to ORIGINAL SOURCES.
      Whereas the left says, “hey, just look at my cartoon. That’s all you need to know!“ and ”Listen to all the people LAUGH when our comedian spews HATE and VITRIOL!! Don’t you want to laugh at those people too? That way you can feel better than them. Just like we do!“ and ”It’s not about FACTS… it’s about FEELINGS…” and that sort of crap.
      That’s what the socialist left puts out and that is what sheep follow.

      Ephesians 6 – that’s what the RIGHT gives people

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    • Hossua
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 9:20pm

      No, the right has it’s share of sheep.

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  • bullcrapbuster
    Posted on January 31, 2012 at 2:25am

    Those little rabbits are soooo tasty if you cook em right.

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  • TexasBornTexasProud
    Posted on January 31, 2012 at 1:33am

    golly, why is this news?.. It’s what the politicians, both repubs and dems, (seemingly weak little rabbits) have done to the American citizenry (frightened mindless sheepeople) for perhaps a hundred years or so now. The real story is how the news media, liberals and the neo-cons use everything from something as benign as weather cycles and monetary policy to the imagined threat of terrorism and horrid fiscal policy to herd us down a path where we lose our rights and beg the government to save us from ourselves while being led to a slaughter.
    Or perhaps this is a cute widdle tale about a bunny wabbit with mad skills…

    You decide Sheepeople.

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    • Icnivad
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 9:00am

      Go back to your basement / sulking room and sulk. Then come back when your done!

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    • TexasBornTexasProud
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 1:09pm

      @ Icnivad… I‘ll skulk when you can prove this isn’t what has and is happening in the U.S. Go ahead… Come up with an intelligent argument explaining how our monetary system hasn’t been trashed by weak politicians (started in it’s current form in 1913) and how they politicians have robbed us of our rights with BS legislation like the Patriot act (where the TSA/Homeland Security was created) as well as the NDAA that provides for indefinite detention of Americans without any due process of law (passed by both repubs as well as dems) and the American Citizenry started to wake with the birth of the Tea Party yet the repubs have co-opted and diminished any power they might have grasped initially. Today Americans, both right and left, sit on their hands while burying their heads (quite a physical feat to be sure) in the sand and do very little to change the path we’re on… Sadly, the repubs (except for one) argue at debates over whose version of big government should replace the Dems version of Obummer’s big government. So please, enlighten us all with your wisdom on how a bunch of seemingly weak widdle wabbits have pushed Americans down a horrible path of destruction.

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  • mrsalvage2
    Posted on January 31, 2012 at 1:29am

    Back in 2008 when Clark Cnty Nevada had to cancel school and McCaran Airport in las Vegas Closed it was clear that Hell had Officially Frozen over.

    So it is hard to surprise me.

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  • sillyfreshness
    Posted on January 31, 2012 at 1:15am

    Now I’ve seen it all! We must be in end times when a 2 pound rabbit can heard sheep like a dog. I don’t even know how you could train a rabbit to do this as it goes completely against their instinct of being prey. Totally crazy!

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    • kconservative
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 2:13am

      I think its god trying to tell us all something.

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    • toto
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 12:01pm

      The rabbit we had was very smart too, had him for 10 yrs., learned that they are anything but dumb, and do love to play chase.

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  • jacksonnky
    Posted on January 31, 2012 at 1:11am

    Just more proof there is a God.

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    • holy ghostbuster
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 6:12am

      Really???

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    • Heb4Seven
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 12:39pm

      @Holy Ghostbuster: Yes, ‘really’…to those whose eyes (mind/spirit) have been opened.
      Romans 1:20 – For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse.
      Psa. 14:1, “The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.”
      I pray your heart is opened to the ‘Good News’ one day.

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  • AxelPhantom
    Posted on January 31, 2012 at 1:09am

    Oh, dang! I was going to raise rabbits as a food source when the SHTF. But now I will equate them with the intelligence of dogs. I can’t eat them. So chickens?

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  • Salamander
    Posted on January 31, 2012 at 12:46am

    Reminds me of Obama herding our fellow citizens around! Only, in that case, it has lost its ‘cuteness’!

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  • piper60
    Posted on January 31, 2012 at 12:42am

    great music

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  • onetoomany
    Posted on January 31, 2012 at 12:35am

    It really just shows you how stupid sheep are.

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    • ModerationIsBest
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 1:11am

      Yet so many religious people are honored to call themselves “sheep.” lol

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    • bullcrapbuster
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 2:30am

      @onetoomany……Now that hit my funny bone.

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    • Biddle
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 3:16pm

      Moderationisbest…..thats the point. People who call Jesus their Good Shepherd are aware of their inability to maximize the potential of this life without Him…so they follow Him, wherever He goes….like sheep. They wont follow any voice but that of the Shepherd. Are all sheep the same? No…however the Shepherd is the One who guards them, and even if one should get lost, He would leave the others behind (they arent going anywhere, and they know His voice) and find that one. The Shepherd knows His sheep, and the sheep know their Shepherd. But there are times when the sheep try to scatter, they run in fear, knock things down, they may evil get themselves killed out there! Best they follow the Shepherd. The metaphor is appropriate.

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  • banjarmon
    Posted on January 31, 2012 at 12:26am

    Where is jimmy carter when you need him???

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  • kwolfburg
    Posted on January 31, 2012 at 12:16am

    Mont Python was right, rabbits are nasty killers.

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  • tersky
    Posted on January 31, 2012 at 12:15am

    I have shared my home with a couple rabbits and am not surprised by this at all. They are a whole lot smarter than most people can imagine, and some are quite audacious little critters. My 6 pound mini-rex rabbit, Zoe, on more than one occasion had houseguests standing on the furniture in fear, including a 6′4″ man. Lines from a certain Monty Python movie were quoted often in my home. I think the screen-writer there had had some first-hand experience with an audacious rabbit, as had the original creator of Bugs Bunny. Anyone remember the story about the wild rabbit who attacked Jimmy Carter on a fishing trip? Lots of jokes about that, but I have no trouble believing it.

    The rabbit is not the cuddly, innocuous little air-headed creature its appearance implies or popular culture assumes it to be.

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    • Sirius3
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 11:42pm

      Reminded me of the book “Watership Down” by Richard Adams. One of the best books of all time, I wonder if Mr. Adams had experiences with rabbits like you describe!

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  • Dale
    Posted on January 31, 2012 at 12:13am

    That rabbit really has the sheep buffaloed.

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    • MEANS2RESIST
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 12:59am

      Has anyone ever seen rabbits fight? They are quite vicious little critters when taking one another on. They will often fight each other to the death.

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  • Katie-Kat
    Posted on January 31, 2012 at 12:11am

    Obama herding the Sheeple to their demises while the Farmer (Soros) stands by and smiles…

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  • TXPilot
    Posted on January 31, 2012 at 12:04am

    Makes sense, after all, sheep are a rabbits natural prey……I think that’s true, or maybe it was just a cartoon I saw someplace. Ten years of watching SpongeBob with the kids, and things start to go a bit hazy at times.

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    • tersky
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 12:20am

      Silly, everyone knows a rabbit’s natural prey is Trix.

      Actually, he might be after the milk. I know if anyone dared eat pizza in my home without sharing with the resident house rabbit, such a one was likely to bleed. She would terrorize people for ice-cream or yogurt too.

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    • USAMEDIC3008
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 12:23am

      Are you still herding 130′s ?
      SpongeBob watched with my kids too
      Crabie patties are CRABS

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    • TXPilot
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 12:25am

      @TERSKY…..I had a rabbit back in college, but all he ever did was sit around with my roommates drinking beer, watching Cheers on tv and making jelly beans.

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    • TXPilot
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 12:35am

      USAMEDIC3008…….Nah….I’m retired from the military, so no more 130 flying…..flying jets in the civilian world now, where I rarely, if ever get shot at anymore…..and the thing with the krabby patties has always bothered me, because it seems that by having a crab promote and sell them, he is sorta teaching cannibalism…..:D

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