Post by Berry McPaper-cuts on Nov 4, 2023 21:48:30 GMT
Fiona has been rescued. Well done to the rescuers!
‘ Britain’s loneliest sheep has been rescued from a remote shore in the Scottish Highlands where it had been stranded for two years.
The ewe, now named Fiona, had been marooned at the foot of some cliffs on the Cromarty Firth.
An animal welfare charity had previously said any attempts to rescue her would be “incredibly complex”.
However, a group of five men managed to haul her up a steep slope and said she remained in excellent health. They plan to shear her overgrown fleece before handing her over to a farm park.
The rescue mission was organised by Cammy Wilson, a sheep shearer from Ayrshire, after seeing media coverage of the ewe’s plight.
Mr Wilson, who is a presenter on the BBC’s Landward programme, organised the rescue in a personal capacity along with four others.
Speaking in the video posted on Facebook, he said: “We’ve come up here with some heavy equipment and we’ve got this sheep up an incredibly steep slope.
“She’s in incredible condition. She is about a condition score of about 4.5. She is overfat - it was some job lifting her up that slope.
“She is going to a very special place that a lot of you know very well, where you’ll be able to see her virtually every day.”’
