A sheep in New Zealand has become something of a celebrity after dodging the shearers for six years... read more here

http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/anima ... 647029.stm

That is one wooly mammal....wonder if the shepard has a reason behind not fleecing it..you know..more cusion for the pushin sort of deal? Which is sort of a family tradition in Montana here in the states.

Funny animals.

OMG!!

What the hell they feed that thing...Jesus Christ,imagine cleaning its litter box :-o

That is some twisted shit. on a serious note, the owners of that cat should be shot for animal cruelty, that cant be healthy for the cat.

eh, i seen some cats like that before, it's not always because of overfeeding. some animals with thyroid problems(or thier equivalients) just get obese naturally. they;d get eaten up rather fast in the animal kingdom, but in domesticated life they survive. people/ mammals have like a built in wieght threshold/ average wieght, some are just set too high, or too low. to get a regular cat that obese, you'd probably have to force feed it, give it metabolic medications to slow it down, maybe even keep it sedated. hyper-obesity, or a straight diet of plain baccon fat and carbohydrates, it's not so much a cat, but a beachball rolling its way after little birds, FatCat, bouncing its way to a little kitty coranary. that cats so fat, it has smaller cats orbiting in its gravitational pull/ takes it 2 trips to haul ass/when it sits around the house, it sits around the house/that cat has its own senator/declared itself independent, a soveriegn state/didnt get stuck in the pet door, got stuck in the regular door/ thought it had a nice collar until i realized it was a car tire/actually respected and adored by the Japanese as Sumo-cat/etc. i seen some people had a raccoon about that size.

Dr. M. S. Masher, Vet.

argh, what i meant to say is,
i think sheep are like humans in regard to hair growth, if you want longer hair your got to trim it and stimulate hairgrowth. i used to work on a sheep farm, sheering the bastards. sheep arent as nice and cuddly as you would be led to believe by cartoons. they get freakin heavey, and if you got a bunch around you, there is a chance of them trampling you to death in an enclosed area. almost happened to me, had them in a barn and they freaked out. heavy bastards too, i nearly died from sheepificational trampalation, and now that would have been one of the stupidest ways to die, apart from autoerotic asphyxiation or stabbed by a nun, or worse, a combination of all three.