The shepherd (Dad of the little girl with the sheep) told me the sheep being shorn in this picture had twins back at the barn and that was why she was ba-a-aing so much. He said this type of sheep are sometimes not good mothers, and this one was not the first time, but now she was really protesting being separated even briefly. I asked him if he thought the sheep felt better with all the wool off — he said, maybe so — like after you take a shower.