Sheep found wandering Seattle streets reunited with owner
Oct 4, 2012, 6:24 AM | Updated: 8:29 am
A sheep that the Seattle Police Department originally identified as a goat apparently left quite a mess in the back of a SPD patrol car. (Image courtesy SPD)
(Image courtesy SPD)
Seattle police are feeling sheepish and cleaning up a patrol car mess after a case involving a wandering sheep they originally identified as a goat.
Police spokesman Jonah Spangenthal-Lee conceded Wednesday that police provided what he called “some baaaaaaahd information” when they identified the critter found wandering a Seattle neighborhood as a goat.
The Seattle Animal Shelter’s Don Baxter says the full-sized male animal with curved horns is actually a sheep.
The animal had been found wandering on Beacon Avenue S. and S. Leo Street. An officer on patrol Sunday morning spotted the sheep, loaded it into a patrol car and took it to the shelter. The sheep apparently left quite a mess in the back of the patrol car.
After reports appeared on the news, a friend of the owner recognized the animal and helped reunite it with its owner.
The owner, who lives outside Seattle, had left the animal with a friend in south Seattle. The animal had apparently escaped through a fence.
The sheep owner collected the animal Wednesday, paying an impound and microchipping fee of about $75.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
