Elusive sheep on the run
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By ROD STETZER rod.stetzer@lee.net
Friday, July 20, 2007 10:45 PM CDT
A sheep is on the lam in Lake Hallie, a runaway from the Wisconsin Renaissance Faire in Chippewa Falls.
The sheep owned by Bill Gary of River Falls was reported Thursday morning to be running loose in the area of 110th Street and 46th Avenue in Lake Hallie. And there was another spotting of the animal on a Lake Hallie road Friday morning.
But no one has gotten closer to the full-grown sheep with a yellow tag in its left ear than Janet Begley of Lake Hallie.
She and her husband Richard came back from having breakfast in Rice Lake on Monday and parked their vehicle near a pole shed on their property.
She then opened a small door going into the garage and got a surprise from an anxious visitors.
“Of course it went out as soon as I opened up the garage door,” she said.
It turns out the sheep had been corralled in the garage. Lake Hallie Police Chief Gale Haas had placed police tape over the large garage door and left a note, along with a phone message.
The sheep ran alongside a field of five acres of corn that’s behind the Begley residence. But it stuck around the area.
Begley said about 8 p.m. Monday the sheep was drinking water from a bird bath. Richard Begley tried to get close to the animal, but couldn’t.
Janet Begley next heard from her visitor about 5 a.m. Tuesday.
“Out my window it was bah, bah,” she said.
She called the Lake Hallie police at 8 a.m. and was told the animal’s owners had been looking for it in the area the night before.
The owners returned Tuesday morning but had no luck finding the animal.
As it turns out, this is the second year an animal had fled the fair at 2302 Nelson Road in Chippewa Falls.
Last year it was an adult female Angora goat, weighing from 75 to 100 pounds and belonging to Barbara Johnson River Falls.
The goat went along Highway 53, the Chippewa River, and later near the Irvine Bar.
The goat was later found and returned to its owner, Police Chief Wayne Nehring said.
Reach Rod Stetzer at rod.stetzer@lee.net.
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