New sheepie at Chez Llamasoft!

[PVB]

It’s a yearling ram.

Not named yet (afaik).



Video:

[Portland]

[The Gardner]

The paint in his hair makes him look a bit punk.

[PFVA]

Aaaaaaaawwww. Adorable.

And good to see Maya too.

[Yak]

His name is Skippy (so called because of his habit in the morning of running up to you and leaping up on you like an excited puppy). He was bottle fed and treated as a pet by a 3 year old boy at the place he was born, and so grew up completely trusting and affectionate towards humans. He was due to go to slaughter, but a friend of ours knew the people who had him and suggested that instead they might sell him to us. So of course he ended up here.



He is an absolute delight, and (once he's made sure he's eaten all the Digestives you're carrying) all he wants is to sit and cuddle all day. We lost two from the flock last year, so it's been a pleasure to be able to fill the resultant hole with such a lovely, affectionate little creature, and we hope we can give him a long and happy life in our flock .

[PFVA]

Awwwwwwwww

[Yak]

And here's Skippy's former flockmate Lucky, who arrived with us today.



Lucky's name comes about from a situation that is both happy and sad: he was one of a pair of twins, a boy and a girl. The farmer had intended to keep the girl for breeding, and send the boy off to slaughter. Unfortunately there was a mix-up, and the sister went to the bad place instead of Lucky. The farmer only noticed when he observed what should have been a girl sheep was peeing from her belly.

This is the same guy we got Skippy from, and he told us the story when we saw him in the pub. Lucky was due to go off to slaughter after having been discovered, but we thought as he'd already escaped death once (albeit at the expense of his poor sister) he'd earned his right to live, so he has come to us.

He's pretty tame compared to a normal sheep but not quite as sociable as Skippy (who basically comes and throws himself into your arms as soon as you sit down on the grass). He's watching Skippy and the rest closely though, and seeing how they are around us, so I am sure it won't be long before he's asking for skritchies and cuddles. It's obvious that the two of them remember each other, and they've been hanging out together all day. Nice that there is a familiar face amongst our flock to make him feel less stressed about finding himself in an unfamiliar environment. I'm sure Skippy will show him the ropes .

[PFVA]

He has such a cute face.

Awwwwwww.

[Yak]

Early Spring, fluffy sheep.

[WiteWulf]

Aww Jeff, they're both gorgeous. So pleased you've got some new faces in the field and they're jolly sociable by the looks of it

[Misfit]

Love this thread. Great stories.

[Yak]

On this morning's Sheep Time Lucky accepted his first ever proper skritchies (which I define as letting me skritch his back for a bit without immediately moving away).

https://www.pscp.tv/w/1djGXpbanDzGZ

(sorry about the constant video orientation changing only it's jolly hard to keep the phone level when you have a sheep constantly jumping up on you)

[Yak]

lol

[Yak]

[RiK]

It has to be said, I've met a fair few sheepies in my time, including all the ones in the Llamasoft flock, but Skippy is one in a million. He just acts like an excitable puppy :-)