Let me explain how we ended up with sheep. We had 8 chickens, they gave us many eggs and even friendship. Once they became too old to produce eggs the coop turned into a chicken nursing home. We let them live out their lives but then came the dreaded moment when we were down to one chicken. Her name was Annie and she was such a lovely creature.
Here is a picture of Annie:
To prevent Annie from getting lonely, we borrowed a lamb from a friend.
Here is said lamb, we named her Laika:
Wouldn't you know it, Annie was terrified of Laika. Indeed, we were rather inexperienced with all this. our friend could not take Laika back right away, so we kept her in our little homestead for a few weeks.
Then came the day that she went back home. I came with her to drop her off. As I turned around and walked back to my car, Laika started to cry so badly, it was heartbreaking. She pressed her head against my leg, looked up at me and just cried and cried. The rest is history.
I quickly built a sheep stall inside our shed, Laika came home and we thought that she would live happily ever after. Little did we know that you can't have just one sheep. Laika got lonely. We spent every free minute with her, took her for walks, played with her, etc.. But the second we were out of her sight, she'd cry. Long story short, we got her some company.
Meet Laika and Betty, both very much grown at this time. They've been together for four years now.
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