Aw, c'mon! Everyone knows I'm a big old fuzzy teddy bear.
If any of you wonder what a "sheepdog" is, it's a cultural meme known to those of us in the business of watching over the flock. Here is the long version of sheep, wolves and sheepdogs:
On Sheep, Wolves, and Sheepdogs - Dave Grossman
The one takeaway that everyone who reads, and agrees with the article should have, is that there is no moral superiority to being a sheepdog; it's just what one is. And there is no moral inferiority to being a sheep. Sheep have built western society into the extremely pleasant place that it is today.
