On The ‘Lam': Minnesota Sheep Continues To Evade Capture

A few Northern Minnesota communities are coming together, but it's not in the way you'd think. Several Northern Minnesota towns have seen a rogue sheep strolling through lawns, running down roads, and evading those trying to capture and 'rescue' him. While this sounds like a wild 'yarn' this is a very real story.

It all started about two weeks ago as a sheep was spotted wandering around Two Harbors. On November 2nd, a resident of Two Harbors posted to a community page, asking if someone had lost a sheep.

From there sightings of the sheep multiplied on the page, with sightings beginning to dwindle, until someone spotted the sheep in Duluth a week later according to a post published on the same social media page!

Apparently that sheep can move as it was spotted yesterday in Proctor according to Fox 21 out of Duluth. There are roughly 32 miles between Two Harbors and Proctor, that's roughly 2 miles a day in just Southern travel, not the extra amount of running the sheep seems to be doing from law enforcement and volunteers trying to corral the lost sheep.

A Two Harbors animal shelter volunteer was the closest to getting a hold of the sheep, as she was using white bread as bait as the volunteer stated that the sheep seemed to like it.

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As with the seemingly Minnesota tradition of naming wayward animals, someone gave the wooly wanderer the name 'Brad' and it has stuck. (Remember people naming the wandering moose 'Rut'?)

Fox 21 states that if you happen across 'Brad' you should contact local law enforcement to handle him, and if you're wondering what happens to 'Brad' when he is captured? Well, Fox 21 also reports that people are willing to foster him.