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Australia's Renegade Puffball Sheep Is Rescued and Sheared
Its humongous fleece has reportedly set a world record for weight.
Leave a sheep unshorn for long enough and it’ll begin to resemble a shambling, woolly iceberg. But as cute as that sounds, it’s a bad idea: Massively hairy sheep face many dangers, from heat stress to blindness to toppling over and never being able to get up again.
A man recently stumbled upon such an overgrown sheep outside the Australian capital of Canberra. With an estimated five years’ worth of wool on its frame, the animal, presumed long-lost from its herd, was more fuzz than flesh. The country’s RSPCA rescued it on Tuesday and announced it was going to attempt a dicey shearing. Reported the Canberra Times: