it doesnt look like there are fences around your pasture… meaning the animals are NEVER in their pasture thus the shepard constantly trying to put them somewhere they cant be locked in.
The bug isn’t that the Shepard corrals an animal, then comes back to get that same animal 5 seconds later. The bug is that she is stuck in her “flute” animation indefinitely. She’ll just stand there playing that animation over and over. I’ll post my save when I get home from work.
Also, pastures do actually work semi-decently without fences right now. Animals do tend to stay in there pastures with minimal effort.
Save file zipped and uploaded. Saving and loading seems to have gotten my shepard unstuck, but the problem repeats as soon as one of the animals leaves their area only slightly.