You’ll never guess who’s under
all that dirty, knotted wool.
A sheep named Victoria.
Victoria was lost in a forest for five whole years.
That’s a long time for a sheep to go without getting shorn.
Imagine not getting your hair cut for five years.
It would be so long and tangled.
You’d look like, well, Victoria!
Luckily, somebody spotted Victoria and called for help.
They would need a big team to rescue such a wooly sheep.
She was covered in so much wool
that she couldn’t walk herself down the hill.
They were gonna have to carry her out,
which meant Victoria was getting the royal treatment.
Her rescuers carried her all the way down the hill
on the most elegant throne.
OK, OK.
It was a stretcher,
but Victoria felt like the queen of the world
with all those people holding her up.
It was a difficult journey down the hill,
but the rescuers got Victoria safely into their van.
It was time to free Victoria
of all that heavy, dirty, knotted wool,
but first they needed to get her out of the van,
and Victoria was suddenly really scared.
(bleating)
What did all these people want from her?
Where did her royal throne go?
She was like, “I’ll stay here in this van.”
“Thank you very much.”
But with a bit of encouragement,
Victoria’s rescuers got her safely
out of the van and into the barn.
Now that she was back on solid ground,
Victoria realized this place wasn’t so bad,
which made her very excited.
She started running, even with all that heavy wool to carry.
Now that Victoria was feeling happy,
it was time to get snipping.
A shearer came to give Victoria her much-needed haircut.
He worked slowly and gently,
making sure not to hurt Victoria
while he snipped away all that wool.
She was like,
“Ah! That’s the stuff!”
The shearer sheared and sheared, and sheared some more.
Wait a minute.
Hello! Victoria?
Are you in there?
Ah, there you are.
Looking good, girly!
She must be feeling better already.
The rescuers put all the old wool on a scale
to see how much it weighed.
Can you guess?
It was 55 pounds!
That’s about as much as a bulldog.
Victoria felt a heavy weight lift off her shoulders,
like, not just as an expression, either.
She was so relieved and a little bit cold,
so her rescuers gave her a warm jacket
and a cuddly teddy to snuggle.
After Victoria got comfy in her new home,
it was time to meet the other sheep in the sanctuary.
Before long, she fit right in with the herd.
But of course, she loved to stand out on our own, too.
She felt so free.
Nothing could weigh her down.
Not even her sweater.
Before Victoria came to the sanctuary,
she had a hard life living alone in the woods
with no one to help her or even cut her wool.
But now she had a home,
a shaved coat, a cuddly teddy
and a bunch of new buddies.
Thanks to her rescuers,
Victoria was living life on the farm
like the queen she was always meant to be.