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Baa Baa Blue Sheep
Offbeat  (tags: animals, sheep, found, environment, protection, rescued )

Cher
- 52 days ago - rspca.org.uk
A sheep found on the side of a road in Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, now has a new home, thanks to the RSPCA Oxford Branch.
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Why Counting Sheep Can Be Very Expensive: Ram Sold for World Record £231,000
Offbeat  (tags: world record, prize winning ram, sold, sheep, unusual )

Simone
- 94 days ago - dailymail.co.uk
His strong, sturdy lines scream stamina rather than speed. Which is just as well, because while Deveronvale Perfection might have just become a ram with a Ferrari-size price tag, he's going to have to live up to his name. The six-month old Texel tup
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Best Friends Fur-Ever: The World's Most Unusual Animal Friendships
Offbeat  (tags: off-beat, animal friends, giraffe, ostric, elephant, sheep )

Beatrice
- 98 days ago - telegraph.co.uk
Bea, a three-year-old giraffe, and Wilma, an ostrich, have become the best of friends at Busch Gardens Tampa Bay, Florida. Eight-month-old orphan elephant Themba, whose name means 'hope' in Xhosa, who has struck up a friendship with a sheep called Albert
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The Incredible Shrinking Sheep
Offbeat  (tags: sheep, shrinking, climate warming, change, unusual )

Simone
- 145 days ago - all-creatures.org
Like a wool coat in the rain, sheep are shrinking. But it's not rain that's doing it. Researchers have found that milder winters are causing Scotland's wild Soay sheep to get smaller despite the evolutionary benefits of having a large body.
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"Renegade Herd" of 40 Horses Tackled By Police
Offbeat  (tags: england, police, renegade wild horse herd, rounded up, sheep, motorists )

Simone
- 278 days ago - horsetalk.co.nz
Police in Britain have rounded up what they called a renegade herd of horses which they said had endangered motorists and "blighted" the lives of local residents. About 40 horses and a dozen or so sheep were loaded on to trucks in County Durham and take
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Harrogate Firefighters Rescue Sheep on Roof
Offbeat  (tags: fire crews, attempt, to rescue, sheep, off of roof, of 2 story house )

Kathy
- 487 days ago - harrogateadvertiser.net
HARROGATE fire crews faced an unlikely callout this week - a woolly-headed sheep stuck on the roof of a two-storey house.
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Haggis Ban An Offal Burden?
Offbeat  (tags: off-beat, funny, Scotland, sheep )

Cal
- 678 days ago - reuters.com
Scotland is considering lobbying the United States to lift a ban on haggis, hoping to boost sales of the sheep-stomach-based national dish.
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Meet Ewe-Dini, the Sheep That Can Open Her Locked Pen... With Her Tongue
Offbeat  (tags: off-beat, funny, unusual, animal, sheep )

Cathryne
- 730 days ago - dailymail.co.uk
A sheep called Lottie has proved that not all of her kind are stupid by regularly letting herself out of her locked pen... with her tongue. Staff at Swansea Community Farm, south Wales, were baffled when Lottie and her three pen-mates started escaping
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