It caused quite a stir, this little Cameroon sheep.
A few weeks ago it got away from its owner and was wandering around between Landstetten and Perchting.
Now the animal has found a new home.
Perchting
- "Last week I
checked
our horses and suddenly a sheep was standing in the paddock," reports Bettina Seethaler.
It was the Cameroon sheep that escaped a few weeks ago and kept the Starnberg police on their toes (see box).
The animal now seems to have found a new home: the Seethaler horse farm in Perchting.
Bettina Seethaler lives with her family, 40 horses and, recently, the sheep on the Seethalerhof.
"We were pretty surprised and wondered how it got there," she says.
Leni, as the Seethalers named their newcomer, ran away from their owner at the beginning of August.
Since then she has made the area between Perchting and Landstetten unsafe.
A couple of road crossings, lonely laps through woods and meadows, none of that deterred the Cameroon sheep, but probably unsettled passing people, until finally a witness informed the police.
However, the sheep was not impressed by that either.
It was too shy to be caught without being anesthetized.
Bettina Seethaler also confirms this.
"Here at the horse farm we can get a maximum of ten meters to it."
For a long time it was unclear who the owner of the sheep was - until he contacted the Perchtingen hunters.
"The owner asked us to kill the sheep," says Dr.
Jens Assmus (54).
He himself has been with the Perchtinger Jäger for two years and ensures that the game population is regulated so that the forest and agricultural areas remain in harmony.
“It was of course clear from the start that we would not shoot it,” says Assmus.
“Firstly, this is unacceptable from the point of view of animal welfare and, secondly, it is not part of our tasks.
We hunters are responsible for the wild animals. "
In the meantime Leni had long since decided to feel at home at the Seethalerhof.
“It's so cute,” enthuses Bettina Seethaler.
“The sheep may be shy of people, but they are not afraid of horses at all.
In the beginning it was the other way around. "
The Seethalers have been running an active stable with 7,000 square meters for two years.
This means that the horses run around the clock, fetch their own feed at the feeding stations and are always in the herd.
Leni now also belongs to this herd.
“We wanted to catch them on the first day,” reports Seethaler.
“There were five of us and we had circled them, but no chance.
She got away and ran away. ”But she wasn't long away:“ The next day Leni was back in the paddock. ”
Since then, the Seethalers have only watched the sheep - and taken them to their hearts.
"It cuddles with the horses, sleeps in the stable and has even tried the leftovers of the concentrate once," says Seethaler.
“When we moved the herd of horses to a new paddock, it bleated and just ran along.
It looks really happy. ”The Seethalers decided not to do anything for the time being.
The sheep have a free choice.
If it wants to go, it can go.
But it doesn't look like that.
On the contrary: “Leni is becoming more and more cheeky and self-confident.
A couple of horses are really keen on the sheep. ”Leni has obviously found happiness at the Seethalerhof.
The Seethalers also grew fond of the sheep, so they eventually bought it from the shepherd.
Vanessa Lange
