A Story of Progress: Britain’s Loneliest Sheep is Now Pregnant with Twins Two Years After Cliffside Rescue | A Step in the Right Direction

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Having been called “Britain’s Loneliest Sheep,” and later the “World’s Most Famous Sheep,” Fiona is now pregnant with twins 2 years after her harrowing rescue.

GNN reported in 2023 that rural Scotsmen were planning a daring, cliffside extraction of a sheep that had been seen stranded on an isolated beach two years earlier by a kayaker.

The kayaker, Jill Turner, took photos of the sheep, who had grown a truly enormous fleece. How she got there—down the sheer cliffs on the Cromarty Firth—no one knows, but eventually, the Scotsmen raised money for a rescue attempt for their video blog “The Sheep Game.”

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Thriving now at Dalscone Farm, where Fiona arrived enormously overweight from a diet rich in salty grass and no space to exercise, the farm recently paired her with a Suffolk ram, and got her “with lamb” after a difficult settling in period.

“She has kind of forgotten how to be a sheep,” said Ben Best, the farm’s manager.

A strict diet and the aid of a few hormones got the ewe in shape and in the mood, and with all the attention Fiona has received over the years, Best estimated that news of her pregnancy will make her the most famous sheep in the world.

Commonwealth media can blow up over sheep stories. When the infamous Australian Merino wether named “Shrek” was caught after 6 years at large, it was one of the most-read stories that week across English-speaking media.

If you don’t believe us, look at how Dalscone Farm presented the news.

WATCH it below…

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