Fantastic friday news: Lonely sheep rescued after two years

As reported by Good News Network, Fiona the sheep stranded on a beach in Sutherland, Scotland, and famously dubbed “Britain’s loneliest,” has finally been rescued by a group of local farmers.

Fiona the sheep was first seen at the base of a cliff by a kayaker in Sutherland, Scotland. Hemmed in by sheer cliffs and the frigid Cromarty Firth, there was enough fodder and water for her to survive to grow a huge fleece.

After several animal rescue organizations determined the rescue was too complicated, a group of local farmers managed to haul the beast up the cliff; and though it went well, there was an unforeseen difficulty—Fiona was very fat.

Whatever else she was doing on the isolated pebble beach, she certainly spent a long time eating, with the farmers describing her as being in “incredible condition.”

“We’ve come up here with some heavy equipment and we’ve got this sheep up an incredibly steep slope,” said rescuer and sheep-shearer Cammy Wilson in a video on Facebook. “She’s in incredible condition—it was some job lifting her up that slope.”

Wilson had seen some media coverage of Fiona’s plight and decided to come and help, saying that now she’s free she “is going to a very special place,” referring to a farm park.