I was out walking Jack in the fields on the way into Pets’ Kitchen this morning when I heard a very distressed lamb calling from someone near a very large oak tree in the middle of the field. I assumed it was just a lamb who’d lost his mother, but I thought I’d just check to make sure it was OK, so I put Jack on the lead and headed over to the tree to investigate.
To my great surprise, instead of finding a lamb wandering around, all I could see when I followed the sound of the baaing was a little furry head poking out of a small hole at the foot of the tree. I walked slowly over, so as not to upset the lamb, and I could then see that this poor animal had somehow got itself well and truly stuck in the hole so that only its head was visible – the rest of its body was wedged down inside the tree. Quite how it had got there I don’t know, but it defintiely couldn’t stay there as it would surely starve if it wasn’t released.
So with Jack safely out of the way I put my rather rusty lambing skills to the test and as gently as I could eased the little lamb out of the hole and set him down on the grass. I checked him over and thankfully he appeared to be none the worse for his little adventure, and he quickly scampered off across the field towards the rest of the flock and the happy sound of his mother calling.
It was a strange start to the day, but very satisfying to have helped an animal in distress which is something I don’t get a chance to do enough of at the moment as I’m so busy here at Pets’ Kitchen and don’t spend enough time in the surgery for my liking!
Happy Easter to you all!
