Moral: Don't Try Too Hard

My family raises sheep and cattle in the Midwest. One day a flash flood filled the ravines and left my aunt's sheep stranded on a hill. My relatives arrived with ropes, boats and floats, and struggled through the raging waters to try to coax the animals into the boats, with no luck. By sundown, however, the sheep had eaten the grass around them. They stepped into the water, swam past the speechless men in the boats, climbed up the other side of the ravine and trotted to the nearest field.