[Jacob-list] Big scare (whew!)

[JACI SIEHL]

I think you both are missing an important point - sheep are not stupid, they just wanted to come in and watch TV...........I have one ewe that after having to spend a few days in the house recuperating, will try to come in or knocks on the door or stands at the window and watches TV in the evening.........we all just THINK that they needed to come inside........(ok I'm not making light of the issue, but I do think that they can learn to take advantage of us poor dumb humans).....

Linda <patchworkfibers at alltel.net> wrote:          Dan,
   
  That's amazing! I'm so glad he's ok.  You're now the only person besides me that I know of that has brought an adult ram into the house.  Ours was tangled in the electric fence and in shock.  We also placed him by the wood heater.  In our small house, we just stepped over him all all day.  
   
  Linda
 
  www.patchworkfibers.com
  Registered Jacob Sheep, Angora Rabbits, Handspun Yarn


  > This past Tuesday a big storm went through part of the country.  (I
  > expect that many of you experienced this.)  The temperatures were
  > in the single digits with strong winds straight out of the north
  > and good amounts of (here) snow.  I got home from school and
  > started into chores.  When I fed the rams only three came over to
  > eat the hay, so I went into the pen to find the fourth.  There he
  > was--an unmoving hump of snow with horns sticking out.  He looked
  > dead, but he's my best ram and my hope for the future, so I
  > gathered him into my arms and headed up to the house.  When we laid
  > him on his side in front of the wood stove we could see that his
  > sides were moving and a foot would occasionally twitch.  After a
  > couple of hours it was time for bed, so we decided to put him in
  > the kitchen (where he could urinate on something other than carpet,
  > if we got so lucky) and when we rolled him onto his belly he could
  > hold his head up.  When I got up in the middle of the night to
  > stoke the stove, there he was standing in the kitchen stomping at
  > me!  Now he's back out with the sheep, acting like nothing ever
  > happened.  Boy am I thanking the Lord!
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