A sheep weighed down by a hefty 88-pound (40 kg) fleece, unable to stand, has been rescued from an isolated spot in the Australian mountains after being found by an elderly bushwalker. His rescuers suspect that if left unattended, the sheep wouldn’t have survived.
“I’m not sure how long the poor fellow had been lying there, but I do know that, judging by the length of his fleece, he had not been shorn in many a year, and had he not been found when he was, he would have passed from this world,” Pam Ahern, the founder and director of nonprofit Edgar’s Mission Farm Sanctuary, said in a news release.
