A team of volunteers explain how they managed to rescue 'Britain's loneliest sheep'. Fiona was stranded on a Scottish rocky beach for two years.
The ewe,which has been named Fiona, was rescued by a group of five farmers. But an activist group protested outside Dalscone Family Farm on SundayBritain's 'loneliest sheep' is now at the centre of a fresh row after animal rights activists demanded that it goes to a sanctuary, rather than being a 'spectacle'.
Farm manager Ben Best described confirmed that Fiona was no longer coming to the family attraction, which opens to visitors again in five months time, adding that her whereabouts would be kept a secret for now. He added that she is 'in tremendous health' after being checked over by The Scottish Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and even joked 'you would almost say she's overweight'.
She said she was astonished that Fiona had 'made it through all weathers' and seemed 'desperate to make contact with us' when she passed.The rescue was led by Ayrshire farmer Cammy Wilson who was moved by pictures of the sheep standing forlornly beside the sea. The group used a winch mounted on a truck parked at the top of the cliff, 200m of rope and a feed bag fashioned into a makeshift sling to carry the sheep to safety
The rescue party decided to name the sheep after a character from the animated film Shrek who marries a princess called Fiona. Fiona also played her part in the rescue. Mr Wilson explained: 'She was so chill, it was unbelievable.'It was almost as though she thought 'Get me out of here.' It's rare a sheep acts like that.' He described the most nerve-wracking part as a 15m near-vertical section where they worried the bag carrying Fiona would tear.
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