Imagine looking out to your backyard, only to see hundreds and hundreds of fluffy, white sheep backs.
Scott Russo, of Lincoln, California knows exactly how that feels and lucky for us, decided to video the whole ordeal.
Russo often has sheep graze near his lawn and had opened the back fence gate so that his 4 and 5-year-old daughters could have a chance to watch the gentle animals.
That’s when everything went wrong.
The next thing he knows, this modest backyard is filled with 200 baying sheep stamping across his grass.
“Get out! Oh no,” Russo pleads, trying to shoo the herd out the gate door, “Get off my lawn!”
But Scott is no herding dog and the sheep just aren’t listening.
“What do I do? I don’t know what to do,” he says to the camera, laughing at the absurdness of hundreds of sheep inside his home’s fence.
He even walks through the animals at one point to try to lead them out, but only a few follow and he manages to lose a shoe.
“Oh this was a huge mistake,” he continues, “I wanted to catch a sheep, I caught all of them!”
At one point his wife starts jumping on the trampoline, yelling and shaking a tambourine to try to spook them out.
Thankfully, this seems to work and the herd begins to push its way out of the confined space.
Apparently, the local city government often brings the sheep in to help clear overgrowth in an effort to curb wildfires.
It’s probably safe to guess, though, that Scott won’t be leaving the gate open anymore when they’re around.
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