i live right next to/amongst sheep fields and farms mate, and so it just came natural to them really, i just walked through the sheep and growled at the dogs when they were pups, if they so much as gave the sheep a glance, plus i keep poultry and also hawks, so i always had the dogs around stuff, people think salukis are difficult but there not they know whats right and wrong
they are easy to manage, plus they are good gaurd dogs, they go ballistic if they hear anything or see anything strange, out our back, all these traits are hard wired into them, and has been for thousands of years, goo