Phyllis is back home after three weeks in the wild. Little Bo Peep of nursery rhyme fame was right, "Leave them alone and they will come home, wagging their tails behind them."
Phyllis, an Icelandic sheep living on John Bauby’s farm in Easton, Connecticut, escaped from her pen while other sheep were being sheared and had been wandering around a 750-acre nature preserve, one of the largest tracts of land in Fairfield County. She had been spotted but avoided recapture.
When Bauby went out to tend the rest of his flock the other day, and rattled the food bucket there was the lost sheep Phyllis. "I'm ecstatic," Bauby said Friday of Phyllis' return to the fold.
All he had to do was open the gate to the sheep paddock and she walked right in.
Bauby said she looked better than when she left. Now she has to get sheared.
Bauby raises the sheep for their wool. Like Icelandic Sheepdogs and Icelandic horses, the sheep show great diversity in color. They also show many horn patterns.
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