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Bob, Son of Battle was a popular children's book centered on the rivalry between two sheepdogs at sheepdog trials, and their owners, set in Cumbria.
Sheepdogs are interesting enough to watch that they have been featured on television and in film. In New Zealand, A Dog's Show was a popular television show until the late 1980s, screening just before the weekend news. In the United Kingdom between 1975 and 1999, the BBC ran One Man and His Dog, which had a large urban audience. The movie Babe, about a pig who wants to herd sheep, was based on Dick King-Smith's book The Sheep Pig, about sheepdog trials in northern England.
A sheepdog trial is mentioned many times in Terry Pratchett's Tiffany Aching series, although it has never been written about in detail.
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