Urban Remote Herding Array

A friend of mine has a new dog with extreme herding tendencies. She's ok as long as the party is on, but whenever someone attempts to leave, she does everything she can to block them, and return them to the herd.

She herds cars......fortunately my friend lives on an isolated road. The dog clearly needs somebody to play with - ideally a half-dozen sheep or so.

Enter the Urban Remote Herding Array. Your urban herder wears a collar with short-range send/receive capability, positional location technology, and a reasonable amount of processing capability.

Each of the Remote Control Sheep [RCS] have similar technologies as required. An RCS is essentially a remote-controlled car with a stuffed animal resembling a small sheep on top.

The RCS receive the signal from the dog's collar, and take evasive action within their programming limitations. If they get too far from the collar transmitter, they cease movement and wait for instruction.

The basic programming is to evade when able, but if cornered or sufficiently harassed to go in the direction they are herded in. Parameters allow for both group movement and individual movement based on the degree of difficulty of the program the dog's owner loads.

The base station unit can be set to run a program automatically, and bring everybody home at dinnertime. Or you can give it to the kids to play with, and tell everybody to stay out of the street.

The high-end model incorporates pulse and respiration sensors in the dog collar, and reins in the game when things get too heated.

Me, I'll stick with cats and horses.