For more than a month, residents in an Augusta neighborhood have seen a lost sheep wondering the streets.
On Sunday, police caught up with this sheep on the run, bringing it back to its owner safe and sound.
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According to a post on the Augusta Police Department’s Facebook page, the “escaped” sheep was “taken into custody today.”
The Hummingbird Lane neighborhood has been catching glimpses of this runaway sheep.
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Despite theses sightings, Augusta’s animal control officer came “within a couple of ‘yarns’ of catching it,” the police post said.
Thankfully, Brenda Pinkham and her husband, who own an alpaca farm, snared the sheep for police to bring back home.