In the end, two of the twenty-three did change their minds: for a few days, they were trotted in front of American cameras and publicly embraced as wayward sheep returned to the fold.
Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs were given for two days postoperatively, and after a week in isolated cages, the sheep returned to regular housing facilities, where they were monitored daily.
(When a video is on, Mr. Gore apparently stops the action whenever anybody leaves the room, and rewinds back to the F.B.I. warning when the lost sheep returns).
The sheep return to the Vivaro-Maniago area in the autumn and remain there until the end of October, when they are walked to the coast near Palmanova and San Michele.
In Montana, Turner announced that he was getting rid of his cattle and sheep and returning the land to bison, the animals that grazed there two centuries ago.
They have spent the last three decades trying to return the 97-square-mile island to its native environment, removing feral pigs and sheep, and returning bald eagles and island foxes.
I took the sheep and the next day there was a sign asking that the sheep be returned.
By 1830 these hopes were still some distance from fulfillment: sheep long returned more value from their meat than from their wool, and the breeding of wooled sheep suitable to the environment took time.
The Iraqi soldiers had volunteered to dress the sheep and return it to the shepherd, as payment, settling the matter in their own manner.
They exalt the humble and meek and they have severe doubts about the ease with which rich men will enter the kingdom of heaven - where, they insist, there is most rejoicing when a lost sheep is returned to the fold.
