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Last updated on June 24th, 2017 at 10:42 am

Main street Gundagai, earlier this year:

And the same house mere weeks later:

Vanished!

(Via alert sheepwatcher MsBob)

Posted by Tim B. on 04/04/2008 at 10:17 AM

Obviously the drop bears got them. That, or your 900 species of sheep-eating spiders and snakes.
Posted by RebeccaH on 2008 04 04 at 10:39 AM • permalink

Rebecca, that’s 58967 to you, thank you very much.
And somehow I’ve deftly avoided being bitten by all of them.
And it wasn’t the drop bears or the spiders or the snakes. It was Global Warming.
I blame BusHitlerMcHalliburton. And HoWARd.
Posted by Ash_ on 2008 04 04 at 10:43 AM • permalink

Nah, those NZ ‘working girls’ caught a flight back home.
Posted by Nic on 2008 04 04 at 10:57 AM • permalink

(cue nerd voice) How can we be sure those sheep were really there in the first place? If you zoom in on the original picture, you can see that it’s a fabrication created by the CIA. The sheep were digitally inserted into the photo.
Posted by Nic on 2008 04 04 at 11:00 AM • permalink

I suspect the chickens did for ‘em.
Yes—it was fowl play.
This is baa-aaa-aaad news, bretheren.
Posted by SoberHT on 2008 04 04 at 11:01 AM • permalink

Chupacabra.
=^0
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2008 04 04 at 11:22 AM • permalink

’We was mobbed!”
Posted by egg_ on 2008 04 04 at 11:24 AM • permalink

Shear coincidence?
(Sorry)
Posted by egg_ on 2008 04 04 at 11:27 AM • permalink

Maybe they’re inside, trashing the place.
Posted by ErnieG on 2008 04 04 at 11:28 AM • permalink

#9
Ewetube?
Posted by egg_ on 2008 04 04 at 11:29 AM • permalink

I wonder, will James Lileks cover this story in Monday’s “Daily Bleat”?
Posted by Baby M on 2008 04 04 at 11:33 AM • permalink

#8 So you should be!
**Ash holds her napkin to her mouth, hoping no one notices she’s snickering**
Posted by Ash_ on 2008 04 04 at 11:36 AM • permalink

They had to go vote for Obama in the Pennsylvania democrat primary.
Posted by baslimthecripple on 2008 04 04 at 11:39 AM • permalink

Vanished?
No, just on the lam.
Posted by Tai Chi Wawa on 2008 04 04 at 12:33 PM • permalink

Or they went to the bah-bah shop.
Posted by SSG Pooh on 2008 04 04 at 12:45 PM • permalink

I’d check the tucker bag of that jolly swagman making tea under that tree there.
Posted by Room 237 on 2008 04 04 at 01:09 PM • permalink

Maybe dey was yust sheeps passing in de night, señor.
Posted by paco on 2008 04 04 at 01:31 PM • permalink

That fence looks like it’s been there for ages—do fences come pre-aged in Oz?
Posted by rabidfox on 2008 04 04 at 01:45 PM • permalink

I suspect a white sheep slave ring. Probably to be smuggled into a Middle Eastern country a country of no appearance.
Posted by wronwright on 2008 04 04 at 01:49 PM • permalink

mmmm that haggis was loverly….
Posted by missred on 2008 04 04 at 03:21 PM • permalink

It was an honor killing.
Posted by Deborah Leigh on 2008 04 04 at 03:33 PM • permalink

Rustlers!
(Or duffers as they’re called in Australia.)
Posted by kae on 2008 04 04 at 04:18 PM • permalink

They have gone north for the winter. The sky fills with sheep at night, seeking the Big Dipper.
Posted by rhhardin on 2008 04 04 at 05:53 PM • permalink

My guess would be that the new fence is successfully keeping them off the grass. But rabidfox asks a good question, how did they get the fence to look so old so fast?
Did they buy it second hand?
Posted by tim maguire on 2008 04 04 at 06:22 PM • permalink

tis called “antiquing”
Posted by missred on 2008 04 04 at 06:53 PM • permalink

They have learnt all they need to know about mankind and have returned to the mother ship.
Posted by Contrail on 2008 04 04 at 07:18 PM • permalink

Has anyonwe seen Wronwright recently?
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2008 04 04 at 07:35 PM • permalink

Quite a bit of the grass seems to have vanished too…
Posted by Nicholas on 2008 04 04 at 07:49 PM • permalink

I think global warming caused the extinction of those sheep.
What else could it be? ‘Eh???
Who’s next?
I’m scared!
Posted by Brian on 2008 04 04 at 07:58 PM • permalink

Sheep gone to water.
Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 04 04 at 07:59 PM • permalink

#23, rhhardin, you’re suggesting that sheep are smarter than polar birds, and that’s a bit of a stretch, IMO.
Posted by RebeccaH on 2008 04 04 at 08:07 PM • permalink

They’ve gone with KRudd on his round the world trip as part of the press gallery.
Posted by mr creosote on 2008 04 04 at 08:21 PM • permalink

I bet that Bo Peep bitch lost’em again.
Posted by rinardman on 2008 04 04 at 09:24 PM • permalink

#32,
I’ll pay that one 🙂
Posted by Brian on 2008 04 04 at 09:42 PM • permalink

Government Experts Hurry to
the Scene of the Great Disappearance:‘With our expertise we can name
The sinister force that’s to blame
For Gundagai’s vanishing sheep…’
The scientist started to weep.He gathered himself and then spoke
To Gundagai’s patient townsfolk,
While noting they all seemed well-fed,
‘It is Global Warming,’ he said.
Posted by lyle on 2008 04 04 at 10:03 PM • permalink

Maybe they are all in bed, still a-sheep and snoring.
Posted by mr creosote on 2008 04 04 at 10:34 PM • permalink

They’ve migrated the NZ.
As mail-order brides.
Posted by mr creosote on 2008 04 04 at 10:38 PM • permalink

Oops. Hope Tom Calma didn’t read that last comment.
Posted by mr creosote on 2008 04 04 at 10:40 PM • permalink

No tucker bags off camera eh?
Posted by entropy on 2008 04 04 at 11:30 PM • permalink

Everything points to the wether.
Posted by kae on 2008 04 04 at 11:33 PM • permalink

“They have learnt all they need to know about mankind and have returned to the mother ship.”
And the last thing they said?
“So long, and thanks for all the ivy.”
Posted by kcom on 2008 04 05 at 12:32 AM • permalink