DENVER — Santa has either upgraded his mode of transportation or a bighorn sheep wanted to cosplay as a reindeer before Christmas and failed miserably while trying to do so.
“This is not the type of clatter you want to hear on your roof during December…” starts a post on X, formerly Twitter, from Colorado Parks and Wildlife, as they provided information on an interesting call their wildlife officers recently had to attend to.
As it tuns out, a bighorn sheep (somehow) got stuck on top of a house in Boulder County Tuesday and the owners were, unsurprisingly, baffled by the situation.
Eventually, CPW officials said, the bighorn sheep made it down to the deck but couldn’t come back down from there, so officers had to cut a portion of the home’s deck railing to give the animal an exit.
We can’t be sure whether the kiddos will hear a different type of clatter in just a few days when Santa stops by overnight, but at least the bighorn sheep in this story made it out into the wild safely (but not before posing a bit for the trail camera for “one last goodbye,” CPW officials said.
