Can you guess what I did tonight?

[Bo B Bunny]

Here I sat, minding my own business, preparing to go to bed so that I can get up and work tomorrow. The phone rings.......


"Aunt Pennie, are you missing a sheep?"

"No, why?"

"One just ran across *hwy #* and I wondered if it was yours!"

*Running out, I scream!*

"LUKE! Do we have all the sheep?!?!"

"Yep, why?"

................... We have a new ewe lamb......... it took an hour. She doesn't have any tags or anything...... no one we know raises this sort of crossbreed. We put her in with our others... they all accepted her and Montel even likes her a lot!

I think we have poison ivy.

She's lucky she didn't get hit!

She is SO strong - she nearly knocked me over a couple of times.

Did you ever think that a shepherd's crook would really come in handy? We have used Luke's several times now!

 

[seniorcats]

Ah ha ha ha! I am laughing because we provided a foster home for a stray sheep this past spring. She was found wandering the roads in early March. We never did find where she came from. The SPCA helped us place her at a farm in another little burg near us.

 

[undergunfire]

PICTUREEEES :biggrin2:!

 

[Bo B Bunny]

She's pretty ugly LOL! but that makes her cute.

Luke's going to clean her up tomorrow.

I didn't tell you... I am HIGHLY allergic to poison ivy.

We had to go through a thick undergrowth and trees by a stream to get her in the end. She had laid down trying to hide. There was no option here because she might go into shock, or get up and run out in traffic again, or go further into the fields and get too hot during the day...... I couldn't let that happen.

I just woke up with my arms itching. My throat is scratchy and I just pray that I don't have poison ivy as bad as I think I might. If I do - it's at the very least - several days of steroids... possibly shots....

I told my son to name her Ivy. We'll see what he decides LOL!

 

[mouse_chalk]

Aww bless! I had to laugh at the 'are you missing a sheep?' I don't know why, it just cracked me up! :laughsmiley:

I agree with Amy, sheep are my second favourite animal, and were my favourite until rabbits came along lol. I'd LOVE to see pictures!!!

And I hope the poison ivy isn't too bad! Sounds horrible! :hug:

 

[kirst3buns]

Oh my, it sounds like you had quite an adventure last night!

Poison Ivy is AWFUL! I can really sympathize with you on that one. It takes forever to go away too (at least for me) even with all the medicines. Of course, I waitedtoo long togo to the doctor last year and she said next time come in right away.

 

[Bo B Bunny]

LOL! Well, it's not everyone or everyday that someone asks if you are missing a sheep! LOL!

So far, no poison ivy showing..... we'll see.

I think he's named her Mandela (as in Nelson) and we'll call her Della like Della Reese the singer.... She's another black-faced ewe so we have to give her the name of a famous black person..... it's his theme LOL!

 

[Wabbitdad12]

I am glad no poison ivy has made its appearance yet!

That phone call is just plain funny.

 

[Bo B Bunny]

Oh around here, that's nothing! I remember getting a similar call in a pouring rain storm on a Saturday morning... it was cool out and there were three sheep walking up our road.... they weren't ours but we went after them. They were a family's that live a few houses up from us in the woods.... they sort of live off the land. Kinda odd but nice people. They were so thankful.

I've walked out my front door to be chased back in by a large African Goose. I've had pigs "waller" in my front yard, and I have chickens show up in my back yard at least 2 or 3 times each week. Fun is when you walk out and find a horse looking at you as if you interupted their breakfast..... how rude!

However, if you've never been around sheep, they are SO strong. She hit my hand trying to jump past me and my finger is really sore today. She's a lamb..... Luke checked her teeth.... probably just a few months old at best. She could have killed me if she had hit me when we were trying to catch her. She jumped SO high! and hit me on the other hand and arm.... it literally split the skin on my thumb!!

 

[juliew19673]

Bo B Bunny wrote:

I've walked out my front door to be chased back in by a large African Goose. I've had pigs "waller" in my front yard, and I have chickens show up in my back yard at least 2 or 3 times each week. Fun is when you walk out and find a horse looking at you as if you interupted their breakfast..... how rude!

What does it mean when a pig "wallers"? Love the "goose chase" story, that one had me laughing....

 

[Bo B Bunny]

They root with their nose in a soft or muddy spot and sort of flop in it after they get it all nice and mooshy. (it's really spelled Wallow)

 

[juliew19673]

Also known as the Dead Piggy Flop.. lol!!!

 

[mouse_chalk]

Bo B Bunny wrote:

They root with their nose in a soft or muddy spot and sort of flop in it after they get it all nice and mooshy. (it's really spelled Wallow)

That pig has no feet!!

Seriously, sooo cute!

I'm also glad to hear that you haven't been bothered by the poison ivy.

It does sound like a very surreal conversation to have on the phone, even more so to me as I guess I have no experience of keeping livestock. Sheep are animals I see in fields on the motorway in the distance, and 'baa' at but hardly ever see in real life, let alone meet people who keep them! The whole thing fascinates me somewhat Gosh, I sound like such an... 'airhead' LOL!

Edit:

I just re-read that, and I just want you to know that I do not mean that in a derogatory way at all. I honestly wasn't making fun or anything... I genuinely meant that I am interested in people raising livetstock, I never see or hear about it firsthand, so it's interesting to me. I read yours and other's threads about the topic a lot, just don't comment too much, as I know nothing about it... I hope I didn't offend at all?!

Jen xx

 

[Bo B Bunny]

I've always been around livestock of some sort..... family had horses, cows, etc., and we had ducks as kids..... plus Mom kept us in animals like salamandors, mice, rats, rabbits, cats, dogs, and birds.

When we moved out here, we had been living in the edge of Indianapolis - we were awakened by the sounds of teenagers fighting, or doing God knows what on our back patio..... we moved up here and we couldn't sleep it was so quiet LOL! then we would have the windows open and in the morning I'd hear "Neighhhhhh" or "quack quack" - it was so funny!

So, although I've never feared animals, or hesitated to pet, kiss, milk, etc., - I never thought I'd be chasing a lamb down a state highway at 7 pm ...... Can you imagine what the people who drove by thought of us? LMAO!

 

[NZminilops]

I like sheep, I wanna see some pics .

We have something like 50 million sheep in NZ and only 4 million people...just felt like throwing that out there .

 

[LuvaBun]

I Love sheep

Some years back, my mom and I were driving along a country road, and a young lamb was running by the side of the road. It had got through a hole in the fence and couldn't find it's way back in. I stopped the car, and I could hear the ewe calling to it - such a desperte, sad call . So, my mom and I try and catch this lamb, and there are cars drving by, and I'm terrified it's going to get hit. A guy in another car pulled up and we stopped all the traffic and managed to catch the lamb and get it back in the field to it's mother ( the other drivers gave a round of applause ).

On a side note - when I visited Canada a few years back I went to a country fair and they had 'hairless' sheep. They had hair, but they had coats which never needed shearing - like a smooth coat.

Jan

 

[Bo B Bunny]

Awww doesn't it feel great to catch one and save it? Baby lambs are so darned cute! I love when you can pick them up and hold them but sheep are SMELLY!

I know what sheep you are talking about - the haired breeds not wool. They are Katahdin. I've seen them a few times. We want a montadale! I love them!


Have you ever seen a curly horse? it's like a asterex rabbit...... so freaky!

I'll get my son to get some pictures of little ugly Della LOL!