It is a rare thing to find a happy, heartwarming story in the headline news but this morning one such report caught my immediate attention, that of Myfanwy, an eight year old sheep in Wales.
Myfanwy, having outlived her commercial use was being rounded up to be taken to market and then onto the local abattoir where her life was to be ended.
This wise old ewe was having none of it and having broken from the flock she made her bid for freedom. She raced to the bank of a lake, hurled herself in and swam the thirty or so meters to an island in the middle....where she remained for six weeks, apparently happy and living on reeds and vegetation until the farmer could 'rescue' her!
Her fortitude has been rewarded by a reprieve, her future looks set a family pet, unless a park farm makes her owner a suitable offer.
Yayyyy for Myfanwy!
Thursday, 9 June 2005
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