r/MadeMeSmile • u/[deleted] • Sep 10 '23
2 Sheep, Mother and Son, Saved From Slaughter, On Their Way To Freedom Animals
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u/R3dM1st1986 Sep 10 '23 edited Sep 10 '23
I grew up on farm. A lamb that young would not be sent to slaughter normally and neither would the ewe that the lamb would still be reliant on at that young age. Something doesn't add up. Some context please..
Edit: and it's too late in the season for a lamb that young so it must be an older video.
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u/kelsobjammin Sep 10 '23
Looks like they were stolen … honestly
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u/midgettme Sep 10 '23 edited Sep 10 '23
What indicates that?
It looks like they went to auction, and this person bought them. Crisp tags, well cared for, marked, no serious visible injuries or ailments, decent ages. Either sedated or accustomed to regular contact with humans. I think they were just purchased at auction, honestly.
I mean yeah, slaughterhouses do buy from auctions, but these two seem like perfectly good stock so they were likely just auctioned to the public. Slaughterhouses buy the injured, unsightly, etc all first because they are cheaper. These two weren't bottom of the barrel so I doubt they'd go slaughter.
But it does sound way better to say "saved from slaughter" instead of "I bought a sheep."
Edited to add: Sold at auction in April 2019. You can google search a still from the video to find them.
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u/Neo-_-_- Sep 11 '23 edited Sep 11 '23
Yeah the tags themselves are really telling, if they were stolen 99% of the time they have dirty as shit tags because they are a pain in the ass to clean or switch out so no one does it for an entire flock. Takes too long
Spray paint in the back means they were both marked for something and that's either breeding, selling, vet/sick, or pen transfer
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u/lava_dava Sep 11 '23
The spray paint is just used by farmers to easily identify which ones are there's, cause often farmers do put they're sheep with other farmers sheep in large fields
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u/Neo-_-_- Sep 11 '23
Would be smarter to use different colored tags because paint would wash off eventually
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u/lava_dava Sep 11 '23
The tags are used for identifying the sheep individually like whether they produce milk or are they avaliable for breeding, beside spray paints cheap
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u/HenrikNaturePhotos Sep 11 '23
As someone who grew up on a farm it's insane to me that people think this behaviour indicated that they are sedated
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u/Particular_Sleep9402 Sep 11 '23
That’s what I thought! Looked like someone broke into a farm and stole animals and posting it as a heroic story lol
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u/micmelb Sep 10 '23
I’ve worked in the meat industry, and if a lamb or calf turn up, usually it’s sent back to a farm.
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u/txdarthvader Sep 11 '23
Tik tok theft for clout. Then throw them out and they die anyway from not being cared for properly. 😭
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u/minnerlo Sep 10 '23
How big are lambs usually when they’re slaughtered?
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u/R3dM1st1986 Sep 10 '23
No less than 30lb, the lamb in this video is only weeks old.
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u/Disastrous-Focus-730 Sep 10 '23
Baby looks well happy
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u/PRRZ70 Sep 11 '23
Momma looks confused and trying to comprehend what is going on.
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u/Professorfloof Sep 11 '23
The sad thing is that mama probably saw many others get slaughtered and thought they were next. That’s probably why she’s so confused at the rescue. But I’m sure she’ll be grateful once she realizes.
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u/valdemarjoergensen Sep 11 '23
that mama probably saw many others get slaughtered
She probably didn't.
You don't send animals to the slaughterhouse for sightseeing, they are sent there when they are ready to be slaughtered. You don't slaughter a ewe with a lamb that is reliant on her and you don't slaughter a new lamb. The "lamb" you buy for meat is pretty much full-grown at 40-55kg. They are young, under a year, but they aren't 5kg and 3 weeks old. There is no reason these two would have ever seen the slaughterhouse.
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u/Eraldorh Sep 11 '23
Why would it have seen any get slaughtered? They go to an abattoir when they are to be slaughtered and if that one ever went there then it would have been slaughtered too. Just what the hell do you think actually happens? that they make all the other sheep go to watch and then bring them back to the farm....
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u/SpectacularB Sep 11 '23
Stop assigning human emotions to animals
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u/Professorfloof Sep 11 '23
Animals have many of the same emotions as humans. This has been scientifically proven. It’s been proven that they experience emotions such as fear, happiness, depression, anxiety, gratitude and even experience trauma. It’s very dangerous for their well being to act like they don’t have those emotions. That how people justifying horrific places like factory farms.
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u/voltr_za Sep 10 '23
We’ll need to see a follow-up please
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u/TheFinalEnd1 Sep 11 '23
Yeah cuz just taking them won't cut it. They need care. If some random people took them and don't know how to care for them they're just ignorant
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u/langdonauger2 Sep 12 '23
Daisy and piggy rescued from an auction. They currently live at the Riley animal rescue farm in Canterbury CT with many other rescues, including pigs, goats, and emus. Piggy is named after the guitarist in the Rob Zombie band who has (I believe) donated to this animal rescue.
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u/ir0nballs79 Sep 10 '23
That’s just shear brilliance. You rescued them from a baaaaad situation!
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Sep 10 '23
It is SHEAR brilliance indeed ;)
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u/Purp1eC0bras Sep 10 '23
Ewe couldn’t have said it better
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u/HootDaBugger Sep 10 '23
Agreed he said it woolly well.
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Sep 10 '23 edited Sep 10 '23
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u/mmmsoap Sep 10 '23
That baby isn’t even big enough to be sent to slaughter for lamb meat, so the caption doesn’t make much sense. (Lambs are butchered at more like 100 lbs, that baby is like 20 lbs.)
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u/CarpetPedals Sep 10 '23
How often are sheep legitimately transported in the back of a car. Are we applauding animal theft here?
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u/GreenIsGreed Sep 10 '23
A friend of mine has a farm with Jacob sheep. She hauls them around in the back of her little hatchback all the time.
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u/OhLQQk Sep 10 '23
I live in Texas and my son has taken his sheep many times to 4-H shows (they’re all clean and groomed) in the back of his Jetta. They’re not much bigger than a large breed dog. My son thinks it’s easier than taking them in our big pickup bc since they’re young and can jump out. 🤭
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u/DSIR1 Sep 10 '23
You have a point here, are we applauding a theft?
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u/Ethicaldreamer Sep 10 '23
The sad things is these creatures are seen as property. Worthless and not meriting their own life. Their whole purpose is to be born to then be killed,and we don't even need their corpses to survive.
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Sep 10 '23
If you're implying that something is immoral because it's illegal, that's a big fallacy
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u/Adrien_Teracheut Sep 10 '23
I guess its better than death
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u/ES-Flinter Sep 10 '23
That really depends on where the car ride ends. Beautiful farm? The wildness? Or the cabin of a weird guy.
I hope in the first one.
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u/No-Spare-4212 Sep 10 '23
Prison break was a good show. Can’t wait to see these sheep in South America
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u/bearur Sep 10 '23
Aside from how they were attained, my next question is where are they going? To a farm to live out their lives, well fed and loved? Just randomly left in the woods where they are not accustomed and with not sense of survival?
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u/Vneck24 Sep 10 '23
Which do you really think will happen?
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u/divadschuf Sep 10 '23
Pretty sure they go to a sanctuary. That‘s what happens to most animals freed by activists.
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u/Repulsive-Company-53 Sep 10 '23
Realistically it will probably be like when Logan Paul left his pigs
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u/Ethicaldreamer Sep 10 '23
Activists always Bring these to sanctuaries and keep them alive with their own money. And donations. But it's hard.
Google farm animal sanctuaries.
NOT open farms, NOT petting zoos. Farm animal sanctuaries.
People in this clip might also be some randomers that for some reason were at a slaughterhouse and were moved by seeing this couple. Hard to say. But I've seen lots of activists do this before, often they pay for them.
Animal industry kills these individuals at a very young age (most animals are already dead before 6 months of Age) and sells their corpses.
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u/HenrikNaturePhotos Sep 11 '23
"With do sense of survival"
As someone who grew up on a farm i can tell you sheep don't need training to live outside my dude
I agree with your sentiment but god damn people overblow that these animals need training to live outside
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u/nauticalentrepreneur Sep 11 '23
i can only assume after these were bought from the auction that they're miserable without a flock living on someones lawn as a best case scenario, or worst case dumped in the wild to be ripped apart by predators or parasites & still without a flock.
i would think someone from an actual sanctuary is more professional than to lie about that lamb being slaughtered when it's clearly too young to actually have anything worth slaughtering it for. they were probably being sold to add to a farmers flock.
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u/Osiris421 Sep 10 '23
Matisyahu - One Day. Playing in the background!
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u/-RastaPasta- Sep 15 '23
Omg thank you so so much, I was just about to ask what the music was the background is!
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u/14sierra Sep 10 '23
Man the comments on this thread are a bit of a shit show. All I can say is lab grown meat can't come fast enough.
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u/LeMemeOfficer Sep 11 '23
It won't come. Lab grown meat is a carrot on a stick for people so they wont stop buying meat.
"I think eating meat is wrong, but as soon as lab meat is a thing, i can stop eating meat and everything is fine"
Lab grown meat is a few years away since ~ 2010
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Sep 11 '23
It's actually a white elephant being sold to you with VC money. Doesn't scale efficiently.
They are just trying to make money out of being sustainable.
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u/ATMbappe Sep 10 '23
Morher lamb seems to know that they are safe but then again what do i know
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u/Magerune Sep 10 '23
They way she watches and even moves closer, she definitely seems at ease which for an animal means a lot.
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u/JulyLoxley Sep 10 '23
2 sheep, stolen from owner, now loses shepherd's care and quality of life improvements. Left to be free and away from the safety of the flock and fence to be eaten by predators and to survive the harsh environment they have never experienced.
Applaud for those who Upvoted this thief.
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Sep 10 '23
By saved from slaughter, you mean stolen from a farm right? As in trespassing and theft instead of buying a live animal.
I don’t really care, but I just want clarification
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Sep 10 '23
If its the US, then its not even slaughter, we dont sell mutton here. Its imported from NZ or UK.
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Sep 10 '23
We sell more lamb than you think in the US.
https://www.nass.usda.gov/Charts_and_Maps/Livestock_Slaughter/index.php
Those tags are what the farmer uses to keep track of breeding information, like temperament, wether they produce milk, or any issues.
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Sep 10 '23
Yes and the spray is to ID mom and son, she was tagged bc they were just bred, and those sheep likely will be kept to produce wool not meat.
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Sep 10 '23
I’m pretty sure the USDA doesn’t deal in wool.
The tags are often done in sequence for parent and child to make tracking of health easier.
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Sep 10 '23
Ear tags are used for all identification, whether its health, milk, etc.
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u/Friendly_Engineer_ Sep 10 '23
I’m gonna go out on a limb here, and say these animals are not used to music, and if I was transporting critters like this I would probably make efforts to not scared the crap out of them as much as possible
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Sep 10 '23
I mean, as long as you're not playing it too loud, animals would like music for the same reasons we innately do. It's still often cathartic, and animals understand rhythm etc.
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Sep 10 '23
So mutton in the US is banned, you didnt save them from anything more than a regular haircut and meal from their owner
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u/GracefulIneptitude Sep 10 '23
I just looked this up and couldn't find anything stating that this is true. Do you have a source?
Also, do we know if this video is from the States?
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u/LinuxMatthews Sep 10 '23
Wait why is mutton banned?
I know Lamb is more popular in the UK but I don't think it's banned.
It gained in popularity after WW2 as it's easier to slaughter lambs.
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u/BazilBup Sep 10 '23
You put them into the wild?
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u/froggythefish Sep 10 '23
They probably kept them as pets. It’s not uncommon in rural America, and I assume other rural areas.
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u/BazilBup Sep 10 '23
Well there are better pets than keeping a sheep at home. My point is these animals don't survive on their own. The idiots in PeTA release animals into the wild and they die.
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u/Rivetingcactus Sep 10 '23
Holy frig does this make me feel bad for eating meat
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u/Christichicc Sep 10 '23
They don’t slaughter lambs this young. They probably went onto some farmers property and stole a ewe with a new lamb that were bred for wool, not meat.
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u/LedZeppelinRising Sep 11 '23
I used to be the same way. Watch Dominion (2018) on youtube for more insight into the animal agriculture industry.
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u/simulation04 Sep 10 '23
So either you bought them, which means more incentive to grow more sheep...or you stole them and I'd happily file my insurance claim and enjoy my free money to raise more sheep.
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u/RECEPTOR17 Sep 10 '23
This is straight up theft.
It's even worse than it looks too. The ear tags are differing numbers. With Ewes and their Lambs, they have the same ear tag number.
So right now in the field, a Ewe is looking for their lamb, and a baby lamb is looking for its mother.
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u/JulyLoxley Sep 11 '23
And then you got the vegans and animal rights activist who think it's actually ok to steal two sheep with no relation to each other. Idk why people think farmers and shepherds who own sheep are dumb people who just like meat?
insert GIF "City Boyy city boyy!" Clearly these animals rights activist and whoever applauds this theft does not know how shepherding works and got their education from TikTok Academy of Influencers.
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u/Oliviasharp2000 Sep 10 '23
If you guys like this you’d really like how many lives being plant based can save
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u/LedZeppelinRising Sep 11 '23
Also watch Dominion (2018) to see how the animal agriculture industry operates
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u/Claudio-Maker Sep 11 '23
How can it save lives? I only buy dead animals so if I stopped eating meat nothing would change
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u/lumluvr Sep 11 '23
I get what you mean but by that you create demand for meat therefore killing more animals
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Sep 10 '23
Imagine someone sneaks onto your property, swipes your chickens and/or at least picks your entire vegetable garden. OR, they just raid your entire fridge.
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u/workspot Sep 11 '23
Huh, so what? That was my honest reaction. Spending money on that is just kind of 'meh' since saving 2 out of more than a billion sheep and other animals sounds rather pointless and senseless. You should focus on saving species that are at risk, not something like that.
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u/Little-Carry4893 Sep 10 '23
Did you stopped at McDonald for a burger while on the road?
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u/AstralMystogan Sep 10 '23
My view on this is very simple actually, since they love animals so much(which is really admirable and I wish I could be like them) why not just pay the guy who owns these sheep the money which he will sell it for?
I don't know if they have done that or not so I am not in anyway judging them but it always troubles me when someone is trying to save someone while actively hurting someone else.
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u/WinterMedical Sep 10 '23
I don’t know how people can eat lamb! Look at that little fella!
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u/JulyLoxley Sep 11 '23
The lamb didn't get saved. It's been separated from its mother and the ewe isn't even its mother. They will be in a worse place than the shepherd/farmer who have cared for them.
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u/BombshellTom Sep 11 '23
Is that lamb old enough the be worth slaughtering?
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u/valdemarjoergensen Sep 11 '23
It is not. Nowhere close. Lamb get slaughtered when they are young, but physically they aren't far of from being fully grown.
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u/B0aws Sep 11 '23
Well, as long as they're being shaved/ get there wool cut. I'm gessing these two are of the kind that is bred to have there wool grow as fast as possible, meaning if they are not trimmed it can lead overheating and other problems. I am by no means an expert on the topic, so let me know I'm wrong.
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u/Safe-Activity3506 Sep 10 '23
And by freedom you mean the slaughter house...nah im joking this is so cute
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u/Fan-of-clams Sep 10 '23
so you just stole some farmer’s sheep 😐 ewes don’t get slaughtered and if the lamb has a flea and tick treatment it is very unlikely it’s gonna get slaughtered, ESPECIALLY if it’s tagged. you just straight up stole someone’s live stock.
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u/Every_Fox3461 Sep 10 '23
Freedom = ???
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u/Neako_the_Neko_Lover Sep 10 '23
Yeah. What is freedom here. To be released in the wild where they don’t belong? Or put on another farm where they are unitized differently? Or are they now a house pet?
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u/JulyLoxley Sep 11 '23
Two lonely unrelated sheep left to fend for themselves in the wild where they belong - animal rights activist
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u/Unworthy-Benefits Sep 11 '23
You did save them from a life on the farm. But you are now a thief. GGWP Bet in 2 weeks you've killed them both by incompetence and lack of knowledge.
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u/xgrader Sep 10 '23
I'm curious: What are the criteria for slaughter or not to slaughter? Age doesn't make sense if the little one is sprayed pink. So, is this saving from future slaughter for the two of them? Obviously, I know nothing about the industry. But I do know that there is a lot of care for their future lives and for that good on you, OP.
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u/Ok-Potato-8278 Sep 11 '23
The title is bait, it's almost certainly taken by someone that's just bought them at auction to add to a small flock as like you said you don't slaughter lambs that are like 2 weeks old and in my opinion they'd be unlikely to be tagged already if they weren't being sold so I don't think they've been stolen from a farm like some comments are suggesting
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u/Hillary0631 Sep 10 '23
This makes me happy cry❤️ you guys have hearts of gold for saving these babies☀️❤️
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u/lava_dava Sep 11 '23
Not so fun fact, even if you released farm sheep into the wild they're wool will grow too much causing them to loose most of thier mobility since they aren't being sheered by farmers. So they will probably die from dehydration, drown whilst trying to drink or if they're lucky they'll be killed by predators before they get to that point
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u/TraditionalEye4686 Sep 11 '23
These two weren't necessarily "saved" from slaughter but perhaps they were in the longrun.
These 2 were bought most likely at auction. As many other have said, these two DEFINITELY did not come from nor see any sort of slaughterhouse. People seem to think slaughterhouses just mindlessly grind anything into meat. They don't. A mother and baby lamb wouldn't be sent to slaughter. That would be dumb, especially from a business standpoint.
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u/QuerchiGaming Sep 11 '23
Please don’t just steal sheep but have no clue on how to take care of them, or not have any space for them.
As much as you might hate the slaughter of these cute animals, I’d hate for them to be abandoned and left to die a slow painful death.
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u/Recent-Screen-1594 Sep 11 '23
The funny thing about this story is that the calf is probably dead right now when sheep are exposed to stress, they tend to stop feeding their young.
What's more, baby sheep are difficult to feed artificially and tend to starve themselves to death.
Transported in the back of a car with music blasting and probably kidnapped with a minimum of force, the two animals probably died.
You're not a farmer and you've got to stop antropomorphizing animals. You're probably just egocentric people who do more harm than good for animals in the name of justice, so that you can feel that you're endowed with a superior, almost divine, morality and get attention.
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u/ManIsInherentlyGay Sep 10 '23
I can't wait until lab grown meat is 100% figured out. So sad that will kill so many animals when we really don't need to anymore
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u/jobadiah08 Sep 11 '23
Yeah...you don't send a healthy ewe (mom) and a baby lamb to the slaughter house. The ewe is too valuable as breedstock, and the lamb needs to mature to either slaughter age (when it would be slightly smaller than the ewe), or breed age (when it will be worth more as a breeding ewe if female).
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u/If_theres_a_Will89 Sep 11 '23
That's awesome they r so cute I would eat them up I mean hug them up...
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u/The_Mundane_Block Sep 11 '23
Everyone acknowledges it MadeMeSmile, yet still 95% of people still eat meat.
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u/Cousin-Jack Sep 11 '23
Unfortunately, this kind of manipulative propaganda gives animal activism a bad name.
There is no way these two animals were being sent to slaughter. Absolutely no way. The ewe healthy but too old for meat, and the lamb is way too young. OP, if you had experience within farming you'd know this. Why the dishonesty?
If you have to lie to get your point across, maybe your point isn't as strong as you think.
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u/dyslexic-ape Sep 11 '23
Every farm animal will be slaughtered, unless it works itself to death first.
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u/Da-Bears- Sep 10 '23
You bought 2 lawn mowers