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Story by Kimberlee Speakman • Yesterday 1:45 PM

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Some lucky sheep in New Jersey are starting a new life after escaping a slaughterhouse.

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Seven sheep — some with tags on their ears and a red spot on their wool coats, marks used to signify when animals are for slaughter — escaped from a slaughterhouse into Paterson, New Jersey, on Monday, according to WABC-TV.

Residents spotted six of the wooly animals roaming around River Street near a Dunkin’ Donuts and a Sealy Mattress store and called animal control to pick them up. 

According to the news station, one sheep even made a break for it, running a few miles north to Hawthorne, New Jersey, before it was captured in nearby Fair Lawn.

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“The Paterson Police Department did a phenomenal job. We took two of the sheep, and ended up putting them in the back of a police car. We escorted them up here with their lights and [sirens] on,” John DeCando with Paterson Animal Control told WABC-TV.

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Paterson Animal Control decided that the brave sheep would not return to the slaughterhouse and instead contacted Skylands Animal Sanctuary and Rescue in Sussex County for assistance. The facility agreed to take the fluffy animals in and care for them for the rest of their lives, per the news station.

“It’s a great feeling knowing that [the sheep are] not going to be on someone’s plate,” DeCando said.

Paterson Animal Control did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for additional details about the rescue.

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Mike, a Skylands Animal Sanctuary and Rescue employee, told the station that the sheep likely hadn’t had the best life.

“These guys, I hate to say, at no time have they gotten on a trail or has their life gotten better,” he said.

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However, the animals now have something to look forward to — a barn of their own on a 600-acre sanctuary.

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Andrew Joslin and Linda Amato of Cape Ann Wildlife had to capture a bald eagle Monday in a cemetery in Arlington, Massachusetts; the bird of prey will undergo intense treatment

By Michael Rosenfield • Published 1 hour ago • Updated 41 mins ago

https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/mass-bald-eagle-dies/2985657/

  

A critically ill bald eagle has died, days after it was captured by wildlife experts in Massachusetts in an attempt to save it from a likely case of poisoning.

The eagle was caught Monday morning in a cemetery in Arlington, after showing signs of poor health since Friday. It could no longer fly when experts from the Cape Wildlife Center were called in to snag it.

Referred to as M.K., the eagle began to bleed internally Tuesday night, the center said Wednesday, calling it a “catastrophic” spontaneous hemorrhaging. Veterinarians quickly tried to clear the bird’s airway but she quickly died.

“It was always hard to watch a patient in this condition, but MK was particularly devastating. We know how well loved she is here in the Baystate and how many people her presence inspired to connect with our natural environments and the wildlife in them,” the center’s post said.

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M.K. is about 8 years old; experts had said they believe she likely ate a rat that had ingested rat poison — something that’s becoming a big problem for birds who prey on rodents — and that there was a good chance she could be rehabilitated if she survived a couple of days.

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Bald Eagle Rescued After Being Sickened by Rat Poison

Wildlife experts had to capture a sickened bald eagle in order to treat the bird of prey.

The Cape Wildlife Center said Wednesday it was still waiting for diagnostics on the eagle.

The center urged supporters to advocate for second-generation anticoagulant rodenticides to be banned — the form of pest control is currently only approved for commercial and structural uses.

“It is time to restrict the use of these poisons. Rodent control does not need to come at the expense of our natural heritage and ecosystem,” the center said.

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Mass. Lawmakers Look to Curb Use of Rat Poison

Wildlife advocates say rat poison is killing other animals at an alarming rate.