exactly

What feels good about it..??

Sheep 🥺

Yes, kind of helps us find our place again.❤

I know both lads that did this graham and cammy

Me too! I guess a sheep's gotta have her priorities straight.

Grass is always tastier on the parts that are harder to get to! ❤️💕 I loved seeing her eat the grass! That’s when I really thought she’s going to be ok! ❤️

And she's still not changed with the munchies 😅

She won't be though. She'll be a circus. The activists who spent time getting to know her were bared from the land under false pretences and while they were gone, the farmers swooped in and took the sheep away. The activists wanted to get her out safely and take her to a sanctuary where she would be safe and allowed to live her life away from the public eye.

@saa6673 the farmers had been in contact with the owner since the news first broke about her being there in a local news paper and had already arranged with him to rescue her. I think there was some misunderstanding on the owners part with him believing the activists were part of the team he had been talking to and once he realised he decided to allow the original team to rescue her as arranged. She won't be a circus, she'll be reintegrated with other sheep and put out in the pastures to live out her life and cared for. The farm is closed to the public for the next 5 months and by the time it reopens in the spring she will be out living her best life with her own small flock. The animals that are inside in pens are in large pens with deep beds, behind barriers and feed troughs to stop the public from being hands on, there are also signs all over the park asking the public NOT to try and pet the animals. The sanctuary that the activists wanted her to go to hold meet and greets for adults and children where they can pet on and hand feed the animals and have overnight stays on the grounds right next to the paddocks.

Farmer Ben needs to introduce Fiona to a well behaved "Hamish" for company and a possible pitter patter of tiny hooves.

Why didn't "the activists who spent time getting to know to know her" ever do her the favor of a good shear to remove the massive weight and tangling hazard that was the biggest threat to her life, safety, and comfort? She now will be looked after properly with others of her own kind for company thanks to these guys, not anyone else who had two and a half years to rescue her and didn't get it done. Activists who cared about her would be happy that she is in a safer place doing well, and wouldn't be out there terrorizing the farmer and the animals on the farm.@@saa6673​

That's a FANTASTIC idea with all proceeds going to Dalscone Farm! ❤

They are busy bodies. Needs to be more laws written about their activity when blocking roads and stuff.

What the heck is wrong with them?

An animated film would be great, from lamb to how she got down there and all the experiences she had while being down there, to the day of rescue and to the final retirement in luxury.

Sadly, it's how they get their jollies and more bad publicity. 😂

Appears to have been started by the group that attempted to rescue her first. They seem upset they didn't get the "fame" they were hoping for.

Because they want her to go to Sanctuary, not another farm to be exploited 😢

She needs to go to Sanctuary, activists are just wanting the best home for her and a Sanctuary was willing to take her. A normal farm will exploit her.😢

@@j.cassavoy4661do some research she’s in Dumfries at a 5 ⭐️family run farm park.

Well, Cammy is a very experienced shearer, so it would be natural for him to do the job properly. He deliberately chose to use hand shears because it's easier to leave a slightly longer fleece with them, it is less likely to cut the sheep if she struggles a lot (and he couldn't be sure that she would stay calm) and they are much more quiet and less likely to alarm. She'll be kept indoors until she gets used to her surroundings, and fleece grows all the year round, so by the time she goes out into a paddock she'll have a little more covering.

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Where is she now

She fed off the grass and she's a healthy girl

I am sick of these activists!

Her case was normal to the extent that sheep do wander into odd places entirely of their own volition and sometimes they can't get back; in this instance getting her back really wasn't something which could be easily tackled. The video made it look relatively simple but both Cammy and Graeme have admitted that there were moments when they thought they had bitten off more than they could handle. There are also some breeds of sheep which don't flock together but spread out widely and generations of ewes will live in the same small area one after another. This is because they live in areas where feed is sparse and grazing as a flock is not viable. They are known as "hefted" sheep and will always return to the same area after being gathered (for example for shearing). They are mostly found (in the UK) in the Lake District, the Scottish Highlands and some islands, like Shetland. Should the farm be sold, the sheep are generally sold with it because they cannot be uprooted. Before anyone shouts, that's a very brief precis of hefted sheep, not a detailed analysis - this is not the place for one but there are books which explain the phenomenon in detail.

Cammie is going to have Fiona's fleece washed & turned into merchandise which will be sold & the proceeds to go to charity 💕💕

Ewenice and Baarack best sheep names ever lol

Sheep exploiters are not the best guardians for the Sheep, she needs to go to Sanctuary.

I think people are more aware of the what goes on at the farms. Versus sanctuaries. Thanks for the lecture, dear.

Youre such a funny little activist!! On the farm she will be well cared for, perhaps bred, definitely remain a well cared for special sheep the rest of her life, without being forced to interact constantly with ignorant humans. In a sanctuary, she will constantly be exploited, harassed, stressed and used to stimulate donations for the cause...hardly what this lady needs.

Sheep really don't differentiate between people in that sort of way. They kept her calm by getting hold of her swiftly and firmly (no faffing about) and then enclosing her in a confined space. They knew to do this because they were all experienced handlers of livestock. Pretty much any animal will stop struggling when in a very small space.

Can you imagine wearing that all summer. Poor thing.

9 kgs, they weighed it.

@@thecourtlyalchemist The east coast of Scotland north of Inverness doesn't get as warm as many other parts of the UK - and where she was living there would have been a near constant on-shore breeze to keep her cool. Unshorn sheep which are uncomfortable will usually rub and scratch to remove wool, and her rocky environment gave her plenty of opportunity to do so, therefore she couldn't have been too unhappy.

@@thecourtlyalchemist I thought that as well.

Less likely to turn out terribly in Scotland, where we don't have levels of heat that you do in Australia. Eventually she would have started to rub her fleece off against the rocks as it became more uncomfortable. But it is certainly better that she's not down there any longer.

Farm animals don't lift their heads from grazing when the RAF are low-flying over them. Unless the drones are actually buzzing around their ears they are unlikely to pay much attention, probably none after the first five minutes. Animals which are normally preyed upon by birds are most likely to fear things moving overhead... and that doesn't apply to farm animals in any significant way; though eagles - Golden and White-tailed - do take a few lambs in the Highlands. The first time the wind turbines start up the sheep run away, by the end of a week they are grazing right up to the base of the towers.

​@@jennypratt5345That's assuring. Thanks.

Drones terrify our neighbor's pet ducks. It shouldn't be legal to harass other people with drones either.@@jennypratt5345

So get past the animal activists by live streaming her pen overnight….

90k? oh, that's heartbreaking that she was carrying so much wool in summer.

No, she isn't, you've managed to add a zero in there. Her fleece weighed in at 9kg, not 90.

@@thecourtlyalchemist 9kg, not 90.

Was a heck of a team, for sure!!

He and Cammy come from the same part of the world and are friends. Cammy needed a team who were young enough and fit enough to do the job on the cliff, and knowledgeable enough about animals to do the handling. Graeme would be an obvious choice.

I think they deliberately blurred it to protect people.

It’s might be copyrighted

This made me laugh. Thank you.

An average UK fleece weighs between 1 and 3kgs though, so it was a lot more than that. But she's a young sheep, an older ewe would probably have had a heavier fleece.

Yes you are right👍of course a publicity stunt making people feel good about exploiting animals for their wool.

No need to exploit innocent beings when we don't need wool anymore. I volunteer at a Sanctuary and the sheep are gently sheared over days so they are not stressed. The wool is put in the forest for the wild animals to use for their nests.❤

@@j.cassavoy4661 wool is a natural fiber that returns to the earth. It doesn’t require pesticides or hurt the animal to have it removed. Are you suggesting we should wear clothing made from plastics because it’s cruelty free?

So the sheep are handled many times instead of once and done....lots of serious stress there. As for putting the wool in the forest....not bright. Wool by its nature can become tangled hard around legs, necks, and toes. Ive had to free domeztic poultry hete more than once when they got into larger clumps of wool and bevamd entangled.

@@RICDirector that just depends on the farmer. Sheep are usually cut once or twice a year. Most of them really enjoy getting a trim.

If you was being exploited, abused or even being killed, I'm sure you would like somebody to make a fuss about it.

Ok, lets make a fuss about the ARAs exploiting tbeir 'rescues' yo get publicity and donations, hmm? Financizl and ideological exploitation is still exploitation.

What do you mean...?

@@cantspellandy5833 there is a bunch of some eco guys who wanted to save the sheep but weren’t fast enough and are now upset that the sheep will end up on a farm instead of some sanctuary.

@@BBountyHunter you mean there's some empathetic and compassionate people trying to save the sheep's life, but the sheep ended up back into a life of persecution, for profit😞😔but where do tree huggers get involved..?

@@cantspellandy5833 life of persecution 🤣 It’s going to live on a farm, not do hunger games, ffs. 😂

Of course not!!!!!

No way. She is healthy, will be well cared for, and will, Id bet, be the 'farm pet' even long past reproductive age. A side benefit of being at a farm with public exposure, that.

agree, what a strange thing to say

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@@harleythebrit6386 sense of humour alert!🤔😁

A smelly person who does more harm than good usually ...

She's at an amazing farm where she'll live out the rest of her days in loving bliss- they're exceptionally good and caring farmers who take impeccable care of their animals. She's one lucky lady...

@@susanmont7578 it's the rest of her days bit I'm confused about. I'm glad she was rescued and I'm sure they are great farmers. But farmers who rear sheep are in a business they rear sheep for slaughter.

Dalscone farm is a rare breed sanctuary - they have absolutely zero connection with the meat trade and keep their animals into old age until they pass from a natural death - no slaughter, no "petting".

​@@user-ej6bz4wm9f They don't raise sheep. They provide a sanctuary for farm animals. Maybe look up the farm to see what they're about?

​@@susanmont7578a sanctuary then.?