A Story of ‘Courage.’

An escape from a journey of death.

In August 2006, Animals’ Angels received a call asking if we were interested in taking a sheep which had been pulled out of the water 2 days before. The very young sheep had been rescued from the Port of Fremantle WA harbour right next to where live animal ships berth when loading live sheep for the animal export trade.

This particular sheep had escaped from a sheep transport truck and ran off the side of the berth into the water. We think she may have swam to the rocks under the berth and stayed all night only to be sucked out into the water when the Al Kuwait ship, she was supposed to be loaded onto, moved from the side of the wharf to travel to the Middle East.

We collected the sheep- a small female with a yellow tag in her ear indicating she was born in 2005. Barely a year old, heavily pregnant, and yet so light, I was able to scoop her up and carry her back to the car.

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