Lambo…
#SheepToo I’ve chosen to tell you about Lambo… #SheepToo as it is one of my oldest and most enduring stories.
paddock to make it through before the glory of victory, was Lambo’s paddock.
It seems to get etched into people’s minds because… well? Let’s just jump right into it and see…
Enter Lambo…
When I was a small girl of about eight years old in New Zealand, I used to spend a lot of time with my parent’s friends’ kids on their deer farm in Christchurch.
The Ultimate Game
When night fell, our favourite thing was to play, ‘The Ultimate Game’. One kid would sit with a large spotlight on the balcony that spanned the house and had the perfect view of the long driveway and series of paddocks out the front. The rest of us would run way down the driveway to our starting point.
Lambo was this deer farm’s only sheep. Lambo was a pet sheep. Rob and his kids stumbled across this pitiful little lamb on the side of the road one day in the 1980s not long after the hit film Rambo came out. He had clearly been abandoned by his mother and was going to die if they left him there. So they christened him Lambo, took him home, and welcomed him to the family. I can’t imagine what it was about that tiny, cute, helpless baby lamb that reminded them of Sylvester Stallone’s revenge filled, murderous madman on a rampage… But who knows? Maybe it was a prophecy…
It was our mission to climb over or somehow get through the paddock fences and make our way through the fields full of animals to our final destination, under the house, without getting spotted by our spotter on the balcony.
Sheep are not solitary animals. They like to flock together. The family’s other pet was a big rottweiler dog called Max. Sometimes Lambo would try to flock together with Max. Sometimes Max would let him. If he ever got into the deer paddocks he would happily flock with them too. The kids would play in his paddock with him, and they would tear around the farm on horses and motorbikes while Lambo tried to join in.
This was no mean feat. There were two long paddocks with little creeks and many skittish deer with not TOO much foliage to hide behind. But the final
But like all babies, Lambo didn’t stay a lamb forever. By this night when we were playing The Ultimate Game, Lambo was a full-grown sheep.
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