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 Rocky
& Friends
by Robin Nowak, Caretaker
His life didn't begin as sanguine and peaceful
as many others do; his began with his mother's love fading
behind him as he was taken from her and thrown into the back
of a pick-up truck and hauled away. Luckily the driver of
the truck had an inkling to stop and ask if someone wanted
the newborn little lamb.
By happenstance, the driver had stopped and
asked a Wildlife Rescue & Rehabilitation Caretaker if
she wanted the lamb, and he landed in the arms of WRR staff
member, Robin Nowak. The lamb was a "throw-away,"
with his four club feet, developmental retardation, and blindness.
Sheep ranchers don't often raise disabled animals
Rocky, so named because his tongue stuck out
just a little on the left side of his mouth causing him to
look a bit like Sylvester Stallone in the Rocky movie,
took to the bottle like a champ and he began to walk on his
little bent hooves almost immediately.
 Robin
brought Rocky to the WRR sanctuary, where he was instantly
decreed as "perfect" in every way. He received the
medical attention he needed and the round-the-clock care and
love that he lost when he was torn away from his mother. The
cataracts that covered his eyes at birth have shrunk to less
than half their size, only partially covering his pupils.
Even though his little legs and knees are bent, he is surviving
and thriving. Two weeks after being born into a death sentence,
he is walking, running, and hopping as he should.
A few days after Rocky arrived, we received
a Barbados lamb, Oliver, and then another little white lamb,
Vinny. The three youngsters are a happy band and they will
live here at WRR for the remainder of their lives.
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