51. I won’t get a cat because he spoils the wallpaper Intention: if you want the pet not to spoil anything, then we will teach him. Redefinition: yes, he brings a little trouble, and this will not force him to give up. Separation : let's read how he can be raised,

Prologue

A lot about black sheep
I have heard stories and parables, -
You can’t take meat or lard from them, -
Should I cut a piece of wool?

And spoils a good herd
Only one bad sheep -
There's a fly in the ointment in a barrel of honey,
Like a rotten porch step.

From one small infection
A severe pestilence may occur, -
Get rid of this one right away
It has been accepted so far...

If we face several evils,
You can choose one of two -
Will anyone be responsible?
What if the shepherd becomes lousy?

It just so happens that sheep live in the vast and lush meadows. Not by themselves, of course, they had an owner, but above the owner - another owner, and above that - another, the most important one. The owners sheared the sheep, and the fattest ones were used for meat. But the sheep did not notice this, because they were always busy discussing rumors and searching for “sweeter” meadows, and in the place of the “gone” ones, new ones appeared all the time.

In one of these meadows in the Golden Valley Southern Urals, and ours grazed main character. In general, he lived well, he always got tasty varieties of vegetation in a place convenient for devouring, and he considered himself an authority, even sometimes “bleated” on concepts, although he himself was never part of the “thieves’ herd.”

Over the past 20 years, the herd has had many shepherds, but for our hero this was unnoticed and not even important, since he believed that he was the most beloved and most authoritative sheep of the Owner. In fact, this was far from the case, but he thought so...

Time passed, the owner changed shepherds, some for theft, some for killing cows from a neighboring village, some for professional incompetence and mistrust, and some left of their own free will. At the same time, our hero continued to exist comfortably, but somehow quietly, without much publicity. Although he really wanted the Master of the herd to know about him and, characteristically, respect him as himself. Therefore, he often took part in changing the shepherds, exposing them to the Master.

But the Master, as life and law required, before approaching close quarters to his sheep, he always vaccinated them beforehand. There is such a special department federal Service safety for domestic and wild animals.

If this department resolved the issue with wild animals quite simply, then with domestic animals, to which our main character belongs, everything is much more complicated. Such a department has been conducting a long individual work in order to prevent the Master from being infected with some nasty thing, but it was always a pity to let such a sheep go under the knife.

So our hero underwent such vaccination several times. The result, however, was the same, he CANNOT be allowed close to the Master, well, not at all. A sheep should not be allowed near its Owner if it is lousy. Lousy in terms of vaccination results, but very necessary for the herd. In fact, the owner was not a stupid person and treated this issue philosophically: the sheep are safe and the wolves are well-fed.

Meanwhile, the Owner began to separate other sheep from the herd, creating competition in the herd, and they passed the vaccination test in the supervisory department with “excellent marks”. This, of course, did not suit the black sheep, especially in morally, she couldn’t come to terms with it. But as they say, trouble does not come alone. More global warming began to make itself known. The meadows began to become scarce, the rivers dried up - in a word, a crisis began.

The owner was not worried about this - he believed that he had enough food supplies, and so that the herd did not bleat and the food was not stolen, he decided to replace all the problem shepherds in his area. The shepherd in our main character’s flock also turned out to be problematic. Too many sheep bleated at him. And as soon as he thought about replacing the shepherd in this flock, the shepherd himself wrote a letter of resignation, stating that with such sheep the place was not in the meadow, but in the circus, and he was not a clown, but a professional certified shepherd.

The owner began to think about replacing the shepherd. If earlier he himself changed the shepherds, then here the sheep themselves had to choose the shepherd. While the Owner was thinking, our main character met a black raven, who was eating in the Owner’s farmstead, and was actually spreading all the rumors about the herd, but he did it so competently that none of the sheep even suspected him. Raven began to often hang out next to Black Sheep. It was rumored that they even built a small hut together in a meadow next to a pond and became great friends. The rest of the sheep were jealous of Black Sheep, because she was friends with the black raven, and from him one could expect all sorts of tricks.

A rumor spread through the herd that the Black Sheep would now decide for itself who their shepherd would be. Many believed this and began to grovel before her: there were 9 heads of these in the herd, and another 5 heads of doubters.

And so a new energetic shepherd came to the herd, with the desire to benefit the herd and the entire livestock complex. He had no experience of herding sheep, since he had previously been engaged in a completely different business, but he knew the topic of animal husbandry quite well.

At first, the sheep thought that since the shepherd was inexperienced, they would live a free life, without bearing any responsibility, enter the neighboring fields of others, eat someone else's food, trample other people's meadows. However, this did not happen, since the shepherd did not use the methods of his former predecessors, but began to herd the sheep strictly according to the instructions, the use of which many shepherds forgot, and at the same time brought a shepherd dog with him, which was able to put the sheep in their place and protect them from enemies .

Our Black Sheep became indignant, went into a rage, turned to the raven for help, the created herd scatters, they don’t know how to live any longer, they are torn. And they came up with a black curse, spread their rumor throughout the living complex that the Shepherd listens to the “ball” in everything, although the name (nickname) is quite good, but in fact the deeds are painfully impudent. They reported this to the province, but the owner was not touched; power must be protected by dogs, even if it is not purebred. For the Owner, the most important thing is that there is order in the complex and high rates of meat and wool collection, and the new shepherd guaranteed this.

Meanwhile, the grass became less and less, and the Owner began to take anti-crisis measures. He gathered all the shepherds, including ours. He thanked them for the fruitful year 2016 and said that now, in times of crisis, it is necessary to select only the most elite sheep in order to preserve the breed, and the rest should be used for meat in order to speed up this process.

Our shepherd was going to sort his sheep into who - where: who - for meat, who - for wool, it was clear with everyone except the Black Sheep, since neither wool nor meat could be taken from it. The meat was contagious, but the sheep did not want to be treated. And there was no way to come to an agreement with her about this.

The shepherd had to turn to the Master. He, without hesitation for a long time, ordered his department for catching domestic and wild animals to catch this ram-like individual, with her friend the black raven, and place him in a special institution, from which they almost never return...