Sheila the sheep loses nearly 50 pounds of wool after disappearing for 6 years
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Sheila the sheep went missing from Derek Turvey's farm in Australia six years ago.
Peter Jones, the man who found her, thought she was dead when he saw her on the side of the road.
"It winked at me," Jones told Australia's ABC News. "Obviously it wasn't dead, so we pulled up and I tried to get it back on its feet."
Shelia had so much wool that she couldn't stand.
Turvey said Sheila got separated from her flock.
"When the sheep were rounded up, she got left behind and that was it. She just decided to go it alone," Turvey said.
Once the missing sheep was found and returned to her owner, she was due for a heavy shearing.
"The wool was very clotted; it was yellow up along her back line," shearer John Alomes said. "So down her spine, she had a lot of vegetable matter in there; a lot of gumnuts, sticks, bark and that type of stuff, dirt even, and that's from the conditions that she's been in."
Mashable reports that, in total, Sheila dropped 48.03 pounds of wool.
Surprisingly, it only took 10 minutes longer than usual to clip the sheep.
