Sheep Lovers Let Their Hair Down; At Festival, Animals Shown and Shorn From: The Washington Post | Date: May 7, 1998| Author: Elissa Leibowitz | Copyright 1998 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

A pained look on her face, 15-year-old Diana Maxham watched as David Todd sheared a brown merino ram that he gripped tightly between his calves in a yoga-like position.

"We thought he might get cut," said Maxham, of Ellicott City.

"The sheep, not the guy," her mother, Julie, added. But with 20 years of experience learned mostly in his native Scotland and at a sheep-shearing school in New Zealand, Todd, 37, took only four minutes to methodically clean the ram. Five denude...

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