{"id":193671,"date":"2025-04-19T23:55:25","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T23:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/animal\/how-bert-arrived-my-shetland\/"},"modified":"2025-04-19T23:55:25","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T23:55:25","slug":"how-bert-arrived-my-shetland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=193671","title":{"rendered":"How Bert Arrived | My Shetland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>This is a bit of a throw-back Saturday continuing the story of how I found my sheep, or more accurately, how they found me.<\/p>\n<p>So far we have Lambie who arrived, refused to eat, tried to die on numerous occasions and lived in our house under the stairs as part of the family.<\/p>\n<p>As Lambie grew slightly bigger and increasingly annoying (he would stand behind the fire trying to burn himself to death, or chew on computer electric cables), it became very obvious that he needed to a) leave the house and b) have a little friend to keep him company outside and hopefully teach him the ways of sheep.<\/p>\n<p>So I put out a message on Facebook and received many replies, tried and rejected one applicant due to far too much baa\u2019ing and wee\u2019ing (remember, Lambie is house-trained), and finally decided on a little moorit (dark brown) boy lamb who, like Lambie, was an orphan.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-77657\" src=\"https:\/\/myshetland.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/L1170019-600x450-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\"\/><\/p>\n<p>This little chap, who we named Lambert, was perfect.\u00a0 He had lived with other sheep, rather than in a central heated house with dogs and so knew what it was to be a sheep.\u00a0 He also liked his bottle and was very greedy.\u00a0 Watching \u2018Bert taught Lambie how to drink his bottle quickly rather than dither about in his usual disinterested fashion.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-77658\" src=\"https:\/\/myshetland.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/L1170011-600x451-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"451\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u2018Bert was very good for Lambie. They instantly liked each other, which was perfect.\u00a0 Problem solved, I thought.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-77656\" src=\"https:\/\/myshetland.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/L1170040-600x451-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"451\"\/><\/p>\n<p>(I must admit that I love looking back at these photos).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-77655\" src=\"https:\/\/myshetland.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/L1170049-600x450-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-77654\" src=\"https:\/\/myshetland.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/L1170063-600x450-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-77653\" src=\"https:\/\/myshetland.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/L1170115-600x481-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"481\"\/><\/p>\n<p>I remember this afternoon so well \u2013 Daisy carrying Lambie over the burn because he couldn\u2019t walk through it like everyone else.\u00a0 This was all part of Lambie\u2019s physio routine for his crippling joint-ill recovery.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-77652\" src=\"https:\/\/myshetland.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/L1170110-600x480-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"480\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-77651\" src=\"https:\/\/myshetland.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/L1170112-600x480-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"480\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-77650\" src=\"https:\/\/myshetland.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/L1170133-600x481-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"481\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-77649\" src=\"https:\/\/myshetland.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/L1170139-600x480-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"480\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-77648\" src=\"https:\/\/myshetland.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/L1170152-600x450-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\"\/><\/p>\n<p>They were just so cute.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-77647\" src=\"https:\/\/myshetland.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/BN2A4425-600x480-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"480\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-block sd-like jetpack-likes-widget-wrapper jetpack-likes-widget-unloaded\" id=\"like-post-wrapper-47143706-77646-680437ed0c433\" data-src=\"https:\/\/widgets.wp.com\/likes\/#blog_id=47143706&amp;post_id=77646&amp;origin=myshetland.co.uk&amp;obj_id=47143706-77646-680437ed0c433\" data-name=\"like-post-frame-47143706-77646-680437ed0c433\" data-title=\"Like or Reblog\">\n<h3 class=\"sd-title\">Like this:<\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"button\"><span>Like<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"loading\">Loading&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sd-text-color\"\/><a class=\"sd-link-color\"\/><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&amp;appId=249643311490&version=v2.3\"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a bit of a throw-back Saturday continuing the story of how I found my sheep, or more accurately, how they found me. 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