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Sheep Horror Deepens...

Last week Jeff Berens owned up to being terrorised by a flock of sheep. This week, more tales of woolly woe flooded in - with photographic evidence. So - pass the mint sauce, the sheep are gathering on the horizon preparing for another attack of fluffily brutal proportions…

First, Angela Weaver

"My husband and I were out walking with a labrador. We went into a field a sheep. My husband was quite some way ahead, because I always stopped to look at wildflowers and things, and I saw the sheep start to look really interested, and then gradually they got into a big group and in the end the whole field of sheep were following along behind my husband getting closer and closer. The dog got really anxious. I rather think it might be the dog that's interesting to the sheep. Maybe they're used to having dogs running around behind them driving them, and they can't understand it walking ahead of them…?"

Flock of sheep

Flock of sheep

Well, it's a theory, Angela.

Mrs Handy phoned in to join the ranks of sheepophobes with this encounter of what can only be described as mutant mutton…

"Donkey's years ago, my daughter and I were faced by what looked like threatening sheep. They were very tall, as tall as we were - I'm five foot. They had thin black legs, long black necks and black faces and they were all facing us in a corner of a field where there's a public footpath where we were walking a chihuahua at the time, and we just dare not go through them - they looked so fierce. Maybe they were just questioning…"

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