REVIVING A SHEEP

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16488, 4 November 1927, Page 7

REVIVING A SHEEP

AN UNUSUAL STORY "MAKES A GOOD YARN" (Special to the Herald.) AUCKLAND, this day. An uncommon case of resuscitation of a sheep by an unusual method is quoted in a letter ffom Clevedon. " Shearing was proceeding," according to the writer, " when one of the sheep started gasping for breath. The shearer laid her down to recover, which sheep generally do, although they sometimes die. "This ewe did .not show signs of reviving, so the owner carried her to (he door of the shed for more fresh air, but she 'stopped breathing. To all appearances the animal was dead, her eyes glazing and rigor coming on. " At this apparently hopeless .stage the fleece roller intervened. Holding the ewe's mouth closed with his thumb over one nostril, ho applied his mouth to the other nostril and blew hard, inflating her lungs two or three times. At the second attempt tlie ewe began to recover, and was on its legs within 15 minutes.'

While admitting that the story from Clevedon was not impossible, a veterinary surgeon to whom it was quoted dryly remarked that the fleece roller " must have blown very hard." The lungs would have taken a lot of filling, and a lot of force would be required to fill them. However, it might be as stated, and " anyway, it made a good yarn."