Sports with animals.
Several sports involve domestic and farm animals, mostly dogs, oxen and formerly rams.
The most attractive is without doubt the sheepdog trial . The intelligence of the dog combines with the skill of its owner in training it. The dog must follow its master's orders to carry out a series of tasks set by a jury, such as herding up a number of sheep and getting them into a sheep-fold. Ram fights have now almost disappeared. They involve pitting two rams against each other, with the animals butting with their horns until one admits its inferiority and gives up the fight.