Elaine

2024 September 27

The story of Elaine, a purebred dorper whose picture is on my Facebook banner, is pretty radical. Though she was tame, her independent streak was her downfall. Because sheep behavior is so linked to each individual that she had to be rehomed!

Because she was jumping over my electric fences, she enticed others to break out as well. I tolerated it for quite some time. She proved to be too dangerous, as she crossed a public road. I had moved her into a field with high fences that would stop even pigs and she got out anyway. Not only did that field have good feed, she avoided all the new companions and crowded the fence line until making her escape.

Now, the only way I even knew she escaped was when Brooke Passehl was driving past at the very moment she crossed Hualalai Rd. She wasn’t even coming toward the campus where she was born. Brooke came with me and we stopped at that place. I called out “Come on” for quite a while, then heard her answer. She came charging out of the thick brush and came right up to me. I loaded her onto the truck and a few days later she was given to my friend who had even higher fences that would be like what a zoo would do to keep their animals in.