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The story of The Lamb and The She-Goat is a story found in the medieval Romulus Anglicus.

You can find this story, Romulus 23, along with other fables from the Romulus collections, at the aesopica.net website. The Perry number for this fable is Perry 506.

What is interesting about this story is just how the storyteller poses this moral: is the lamb allowed to choose its own allegiances (so the dog looks silly pointing out the "mistake," since as far as the lamb is concerned there is no mistake...), or is the lamb being foolish, betraying its own nature by abandoning its own kind (meaning that the dog is the typical fable figure, pointing out the foolish mistake that another animal has made).

There is a version of this story in the form of a poem with audio available here: Agnus et Capra (verse).

You can see a 1501 woodcut illustration for this fable at the University of Mannheim website.

You can find a translation of a different version of this fable (based on the Latin poet Phaedrus) in Aesop's Fables, by Laura Gibbs (Oxford University Press, 2003).

Caprarum Canis: instead of being a "sheep dog" this dog is a "goat dog," whose task is to herd this flock of goats (hence haedis suis, etc.)