Jellybean

On April 9th, 2019, we received a call from Jackson County, Ohio, about a lamb who escaped from a local slaughterhouse. Jellybean ran scared and wild for over two months; residents in the county set up food and shelter for him in their carport, but that was no permanent solution. The Ohio SPCA rescue team used a clever combination of hay, treats, and gates to capture this traumatized lamb. They lured him into the carport (a place he was already comfortable with) and closed the gate around them. The rescue team then carefully haltered the panicked Jellybean and transported him home to the Ohio SPCA Farm Sanctuary, where, following a quarantine period, he acclimated to the sheep and goat herd, becoming best friends with our other sheep. Although Jellybean doesn’t trust humans, he understands we won’t hurt him. He’s safe and loved. He enjoys grazing with his best friends and eating animal crackers. He is a hair sheep like Patrick and can usually be seen in the summer sporting shedding hair like a shawl because he won’t let anyone help pull it off.