We Got A Ram On The Loose In McKinley Park
CBS - Police said the ram was discovered in the 3300 block of South Damen Avenue around 9:35 a.m. Monday.
Chicago Animal Care and Control said its inspectors followed the sheep a bit down the 3200 block of South Hoyne Avenue a couple of blocks away, before she was safely tranquilized and taken to Animal Care and Control.
“The medical team have been monitoring her, and she’s doing quite well,” Animal Care and Control said on Facebook. “She is named McKinley and she will be going to rescue. It is speculated that she may have escaped a farm transport. Better days are ahead for this ‘little’ girl.”
First of all, pretty sure that’s just a (female) lamb head-butting shit and not a ram, but that article was all over the place with its sheep pronouns. Pretty insensitive reporting. Regardless, rough summer to be a Chicago Animal Control officer and a rough summer to decide you’re going to blog about every foreign animal in the city. Started with an alligator, thought it’d be a one and done deal, then it became alligators (plural) once everyone and their brother wanted to become the next Gator Bob. After that we had jungle birds, 8 ft long snakes, Asian monster fish, and now a ram is entering the group chat. My Jumanji conspiracy grows stronger.
I don’t know if this is another pet (a ram would low-key be a great drug dealer watch animal) or a petting zoo refugee, either way, a loose ram is minor league stuff compared to the routine gator calls blowing up Chicago Scanner every day (we may need to estate a law banning the sale and purchase of remote control alligator heads in the Chicagoland area from here on out). Kind of a bummer that this became anti-climatic content since Animal PD caught it before I could get the chance to get forced into going to McKinley for #ChicagoRam/LambWatch2k19.
Things could have gotten interesting very quick with me and Ram Bob down there.
Very quick.