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We Got Trotting—The Fourth Sheep!

From Edgar's Mission
December 2023

After more than six months of planning, reconnaissance expeditions, failed attempts, hope and heartbreak, on Monday of this week the fourth sheep found sanctuary at Edgar’s Mission.

Sheep Trotting
Trotter the very woolly rescued Sheep

In a tale worthy of a Hollywood movie, if not our very own spine-tingling novel, comes the rescue of the “fourth sheep”.

After more than six months of planning, reconnaissance expeditions, failed attempts, hope and heartbreak, on Monday of this week the fourth sheep found sanctuary at Edgar’s Mission.

And when he did, there was hardly a dry eye among our rescue team and all of those who had become so heavily invested in this journey.

Alerted earlier this year to the merry meanderings of four sheep in the Wombat State Forest – a large expanse of trees, dense vegetation and disused mineshafts of some 70,000 hectares – our curiosity, concern and compassion were piqued.

Impossible, it seemed. But only so for now, we pondered.

Legend has it these woolly wonders were the sole survivors of a truck rollover some eight years ago. Fleeing into the nearby bush, the sheep had stoically survived, bushranger-like, by their wits and smarts, for many a year.

The area most frequented by these happy wanderers, we learned from numerous callers and Facebook sightings, was just shy of the tiny township of Daylesford.

But the only things they were to ever steal were the hearts of all those who learned of their romantic tale.

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