Letter of the week
All creatures great and small
I ENJOYED Jamie Blackett’s article about his overwintering lambs (‘Return of the woolly menaces’, January 18). As well as introducing me to a new word, cowpies (presumably pronounced cowp-ees rather than cow-pies), it reminded me of life as a child back in Pembrokeshire.
Whenever there were sheep in the field behind my parents’ garden, I would regularly climb over the fence to rescue the unfortunate animals whose self-righting mechanism had failed and, having rolled onto their backs, had found themselves stranded with legs flailing in the air. Then there was the time I borrowed a pair of my father’s wire cutters to cut free a seemingly ungrateful, snarling badger caught by a back leg in a snare at
