Fate is learning one of life’s great lessons for a young border collie – how to get a sheep to move when a sheep doesn’t want to move. First, you put your head down low to the ground. Then, you move forward step by step. Then you give the sheep a withering dose of eye. When you are very young, they stare, they stomp, they lower their heads and charge. But as you get older, bit by bit, you stand your ground, back them up, move them back.

That’s when life for a border collie begins to make sense.