FREDERICK, Md. (WUSA9) -- Three sheep escaped their pens for a ladies' night out on the town in downtown Frederick Monday and Tuesday, as first reported by The Frederick News Post.
On Monday, police received calls about sheep being loose in the 100 block of East Second Street around 7:18 p.m. It took four city police units, including a K-9 unit, to captured one of the sheep by 8:15 p.m.
The remaining two sheep sent police on a wild sheep chase.
Early Tuesday around 7:56 a.m., authorities were called to a parking garage located at 17 E. Church St. after several people reported seeing the sheep inside.
The sheep, one step ahead of authorities, had already fled to another location.
At 8:49 a.m., animal control officers finally spotted the sheep at East Patrick and Water streets.
After sending officers on a chase all over the city, the sheep jumped into the water at Carroll Creek.
Police were able to pull the sheep out of the water and get them in a crate. The three sheep were taken to the Frederick County Animal Shelter where their owners came and picked them up.
The sheep have been identified as female Barbados blackbelly sheep.
