An escaped sheep was found with 60 pounds of wool.
Shrek the sheep ran away and hid in a cave in New Zealand for 6 years. When Shrek was finally found in 2004, the sheep had gone unsheared for so long that it had accumulated 60 pounds of wool on its body, enough to make 20 suits! The sheep became famous and even got to meet the Prime Minister. Shrek finally passed away last month at the age of 16.
The prime minister met a sheep.
Reading this immediately made me pose the question, is this what all sheep looked like before they were domesticated by man? Were they just big balls of wool that couldn’t see where they were going or defend themselves from predators?
Pretty sure sheep used to loose their wool by themselves periodically, before domestication and all that.
(via kingjaffejoffer)