Couple woken up by flock of sheep walking about on top of their roof
It’s not every day you’re woken up by a flock of sheep clambering around on your roof.
But that’s exactly what happened to one couple while they were asleep in bed in Whitworth, Lancashire, on Thursday morning.
Kristen Jackson, 28, and her partner Daniel Payne, 33, feared their home was being broken into by burglars when they heard loud noises at around 8am.
When Kristen rushed outside to investigate, she was ‘shocked’ to discover four of the farm animals trotting about on top of the four-bed property.
‘You think the worst – is someone in the house? Is someone breaking in?’ Kristen said.
‘I quickly jumped out of bed and went out of the back door, and I went to the back garden area and looked up.
‘And I was like “oh my god, there are sheep on the roof”.’
Upon realising the cause of the bizarre commotion, Kristen said she ‘burst out laughing’ at the sight of the sheep, who had somehow made their way onto the 9ft-high roof.
She said: ‘It was kind of hilarious. I ran inside and grabbed my phone and basically said to my partner, “You need to come out and see this.”
‘He came out and turned around and was just shocked. He just started laughing at the fact that we had four sheep on the house, and they were just staring back at us.’
Kristen explained that their home, which they moved into just over a year ago and is currently under renovation, is partially submerged into a hillside.
That had allowed the curious livestock to get up onto the roof after they snuck through a fence earlier in the morning.
She said: ‘We live in Whitworth and we back onto the moors, so we do tend to see sheep and cows wandering up and down the road if they’ve got loose.
‘It’s a surprise that they’ve come down the driveway, through the fencing and onto the roof.
‘But within five to 10 minutes, as we’d spooked them, they kind of made their way off.’
Kristen said she would be reinforcing the boundaries of the property to make sure no more animals can venture on top of their home.
She added: ‘In the future, we’ll definitely be making a change to the fence to make sure it doesn’t happen again.’
Last month, a flock of sheep started behaving rather strangely after eating 100kg of cannabis in a greenhouse.
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