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When the wool's on a sheep, it's full of oil, and this oil is replaced by the skin of the sheep if it washes off. Once it's cut off and washed, the oil is gone and no longer repels water.
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The sheep would shrink if it rained hot, soapy water, just as your wool sweater shrinks when you wash it in hot, soapy water. But neither sheep nor your wool sweater shrink in cool rain.
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wool only shrinks in very hot water and rain is not hot
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Because they use Woolite! Hahahaha! I crack me up. Come on they really are fat not fluffy!
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because the sheep are pinned up on a clothes lines and dried out in the sun. it's an old family secret passed down among the sheep herders, but it works, quite well. i should know, i was a sheep once, y'know, before the surgery. (the hell is he talking about!?)
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because they go inside when it rains i guess.
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body oil that seeps into the wool.
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because the water in their wool just makes them bigger and bigger - they only shrink when they are tumble-dried on hot.
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The only sheep that are raised today are sanforized...the patented anti-shrinking process. I understand they're now working on perma-pressed sheep. The wonders of genetic engineering. ;-)
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...because they use their "Um-BAAAA-La's" :)
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They couldn't be baaathered.
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They do , the shepherd's throw them in a massive tumble dryer overnight when everyone's asleep.
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I heard they only use pre-shrunk wool on live sheep.
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Because wool doesn't shrink when it gets wet, it shrinks when you dry it. (As in dry it in the dryer.) Any natural fiber can be washed, many cannot be dried though.
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Because we don't put them in the dryer afterwards
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HAHHAAH! That is a great question! Wouldn't that be funny, though, if they did?
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A documentary said that sheep are good swimmers but the farmers have to be careful if there is a risk of floods because the sheep wont swim they just stand still, DERR, how thick is a sheep!..Maybe that's their way of a diet, "Guys, the waters rising, stand still, if our coats shrink the daft farmer'll think we've lost weight, bonus no sheeP kebabs for his dinner!" :)
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thats a funny and good question, dont know the answer tho, but made me laugh,points to you
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The correct answer was given above. The wool on a live sheep is continually protected with oil (lanolin) secreted by the sheep's skin. Wool cloth is just dead fiber. I was going to say something more cute, like sheep have more sense than some people about knowing when to come in out of the rain,...but I decided against it. (razz)
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They're scotchgarded at birth. Trade secret.
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Why should they??
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I love you for this question... LOVE!
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It's all in the blow drying...
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Have you ever seen a curly haired woman in the rain....the hais frizzes. They look like they have an afro...lol!
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Because they are not knitted?
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Sheep don't shrink because they were sprayed with "Sizing" before they were ironed. At least that's what I think I remember 35 years ago in high school. maybe things have changed...?
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coz they r way to cute to shrink :D
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sHEEP DON'T SHRINK BECAUSE THEY ARE SANFERIZED. LOL
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IN ADDITION, THEY LOOK LIKE THEY SHRINK BECAUSE THEIR HAIR GETS WET AND STICKS TO THEM AND MAKES THEM LOOK SMALLER.
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They get a lot smaller when they get all that wool sheared off!
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Because they get washed with cold water and air dry.
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Hot water shrinks wool, the rain is cool, hence no shrinkage. Now if the rain were hot, and the sheep were aggitated, then you'd have felted sheep, not shrunk sheep.
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