A wonderful story of humans helping animals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sheep<\/a> are hardy, resilient<\/a> animals<\/a>. Depending on the breed, they thrive in the driest of desserts and snowiest of planes. But being highly social animals, one thing they cannot tolerate is isolation. Unfortunately, isolation was a long reality for poor Fiona, a sheep who spent more than two years in solitude at the bottom of a cliff in Scotland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n How exactly Fiona became stuck at the bottom of a cliff was a mystery. But hauling her out was an even more confounding problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Despite over 50,000 people signing a petition<\/a> to rescue Fiona, the Scottish SPCA<\/a> called the safety logistics \u201cincredibly complex<\/a>\u201d due to the terrain being so inaccessible, not to mention any human interaction likely causing extreme stress for the stranded rescuee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n That\u2019s when a group of five farmers\u2014including sheep farmer and BBC<\/em> presenter Cammy Wilson<\/a>, and YouTube star Graeme Parker<\/a>\u2014 took things into their own hands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n With a whole lotta rope and a whole lotta patience, the team successfully found Fiona in a cave (a little overweight, perhaps eating her lonely feelings a bit) and hoisted her up the steep cliff to safety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Watch the harrowing resc-ewe mission below. Gotta say, the drone footage makes it look even more epic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Fiona was then taken to Dalscone Farm Fun in Dumfries, Scotland\u2014a new forever home, where her new owner, Ben Best, dubbed her healthy and relaxed, even if she \u201ccould lose a few pounds<\/a>.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Though animal rights activists did show concern with Fiona\u2019s new living situation, likening it closer to a \u201cpetting zoo\u201d than the sanctuary she deserved, Best affirmed that was not the case, saying, \u201cIt\u2019s effectively a farm where people can go and visit the animals, but they don\u2019t go in amongst the animals.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n He also added that she would be kept away from the public eye for five-to-six months, and not step into the limelight until she\u2019s ready for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In 2024, Best gave the world a much-needed update on Fiona\u2019s wellbeing when he appeared on the Fed by Farmers Podcast<\/em>. Spoiler alert: she\u2019s doing great. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A wonderful story of humans helping animals. Sheep are hardy, resilient animals. Depending on the breed, they thrive in the driest of desserts and snowiest of planes. But<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6482,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/humorsidehub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/644556112_1388325113328476_488543711179592253_n.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/humorsidehub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/humorsidehub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/humorsidehub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humorsidehub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humorsidehub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/humorsidehub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6483,"href":"https:\/\/humorsidehub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6481\/revisions\/6483"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humorsidehub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/humorsidehub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humorsidehub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humorsidehub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}